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Ladder Drill Hopping Two Forward One Back
This drill is great for developing uni-lateral (one foot) coordination as it challenges the movement skills of athletes. Hopping drills are also great for developing lower leg strength and power.
Combining plyometric and weight training: exercises to increase speed and power
Increasing your speed and power through contrast training
Plyometric training: increase your speed and power
Plyometric drills and exercises
Plyometrics: including jumping exercises in your training programme can improve performance
Good jumping ability is a prerequisite for superior performance
Plyometric training exercise: the two-footed landing drop (depth) jump
Boost the power output of your muscles
Plyometric Training: Two-footed Landing Drop (Depth) Jump
The drop or depth jump is a ‘plyometric’ exercise. It’s designed like other similar dynamic exercises to boost the power output of your muscles (and in particular their fast twitch fibre).
Plyometric training: how jump training can help athletes improve their performance in any sport
The theory and practice of improving your jumping ability
Plyometric training: can it improve football performance?
Plyometric type exercises for power and speed are used with great effect but how useful are they for footballers?
Plyometrics: jumping to improve performance!
The depth jump
Plyometrics: prevention and treatment of tendon injury
Highly sprung – maximising tendon health for running performance
Strength Training for Basketball: How to improve your strength and power on the court
Improve Your Jumping Ability and Basketball Skills with the Right Weight Training Workout
Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics
Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further
Sandbag Shoulder Press Throw
Sandbags are an effective low cost alternative to medicine ball.
Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung
A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete.
Sports News: Aquatic Plyometrics
The Benefits of Aquatic Plyometrics
Plyometric exercises: are they effective in improving upper body strength?
There is doubt over how useful plyometric training is for upper body development
agility
Agility: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee: sport-specific drills for boosting agility
periodisation models
Periodisation models: sport-specific requirements for skill acquisition and competition readiness
fast-twitch muscles
Fast-twitch muscles: Twitch and you're gone - all you need to know about developing fast-twitch muscle fibre for speed, power and strength
strength endurance
Strength endurance: Power without mass: how strength and plyometric training can boost endurance running performance
hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy: Don't pour cold water over hydrotherapy
pre-conditioning
Pre-conditioning - or how to do the preparatory work needed to stay in tip-top training condition all year round
weight training for women
Weight training for women: Why women avoid weight training - and how coaches can change their minds
complex training
Complex training: The potentiation effect - can one training mode really enhance another?
sport specific weight training
Sport specific weight training
Plyometric Exercise | Power Training
Plyometric Exercise and Power Training
Fitness programmes
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
fitness program
Fitness program - How to design a sports-specific fitness program
Strength training: comparing the effects of a traditional strength programme with plyometric training
Upper body strength training
medicine ball training workouts
Medicine ball training workouts: Does medicine ball training really work?
Injury management
Injury Management: So what exactly is the coach meant to do during the rehabilitation period? Here are a few pointers.
Running Performance in 2025
Here's an exclusive report on a world-record attempt made in (or about) the year 2025
Power Training
Power Training: How contrast power training maximises performance
sports injuries benefits
You may not appreciate it at the time, but an injury can teach you a lot about how your body works
strength training routines | strength training programmes | strength training
Strength training routines: most runners think that strength training routines are something carried out in a weight room or gym utilising various pieces of equipment (barbells, dumbbells, weight machines, etc.).
Shoulder injuries
Shoulder Injuries: Here are a number of further exercises to help you avoid shoulder pain
Training dietary regimes
Training Dietary Regimes: You can lead a footballer to a proper diet, but can you make him eat it?
weight training for runners
Weight Training For Runners: If you want to improve performance, the cardinal rule is: be more specific.
rugby league training | strength | power
Rugby League Training - Strength And Power: Professional Rugby League is a demanding sport, combining raw aggression and subtle playing skill in equal measure.
Sport injury rehabilitation
Sport Injury Rehabilitation: So what exactly is the coach meant to do during the rehabilitation period? Here are a few pointers.
400 metres training schedule
400 Metres Training Schedule: Mark Richardson recently beat the renowned Michael Johnson over 400 metres. Here is part of his training schedule.
Stretching Flexibility Exercises 1
Stretching Flexibility Exercises 1: What science has to say about the performance benefits of flexibility training
Performance tests
How to monitor your maximal running speed, your power and your endurance - in training.
"run-play" training
"run-play" Training: These workouts can boost fitness, speed, endurance and correct weaknesses - and are fun to do.
Muscle soreness
Muscle Soreness: Try this eccentric method of getting rid of muscle soreness.
strength shoes
Strength Shoes: Does the 'strength' shoe really do anything for your strength?
strength shoes
Strength Shoes: Does the 'strength' shoe really do anything for your strength?
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