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Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!
Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!
Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation
The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition
Rugby Training: Secrets of the Rugby World Cup Players
Scotland's Rugby Fitness Coach shares his rugby training tips
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?
Weight Training Routines for Rugby Players
A rugby tackle requires explosive power – here are some strength training tips on how to get it
Fitness Training for Rugby Union
Rugby conditioning: the fitness standards rugby players and coaches should be aiming for
Preventing Injury: Risk factors for rugby players
Previous rugby injuries predict in-season problems for rugby players
Women's Rugby: Resistance training for rugby
A women's rugby trainer divulges her rugby conditioning secrets from the World Cup
Sports psychology: Post-game recovery for rugby players
Is exercise better than rest for psychological recovery after a game of rugby?
Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics
Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further
Zig Zag Sprints
A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.
The Seated Good Morning
The seated good morning is another variation of the standing version of this low back exercise.
Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung
The most simple of ladder drills can be used for beginners and young athletes to teach them about moving quickly. The ladder drill can also be used to teach running mechanics.
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.
Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back
One of the more complex ladder drills, it helps develop co-ordinated quickness in two directions: forwards and back.
Lateral Ladder Drill
Challenges co-ordination by teaching quick lateral movements. This drill can also be used as an aid for teaching correct lateral movement mechanics.
Lateral Zig Zags
One of the most common movements in sport is running side-ways on an angle. This drill helps develop lateral speed and changes in lateral direction.
Agility Drill 1
This agility drill is great for learning to decelerate and rapidly change direction following a period of acceleration.
Agility Drill 3
This drill is designed to focus upon quick feet movements followed by an initial acceleration. The quick foot movements will help “prime” your body for the sprint and rapid change of direction.
Agility Drill 4
Similar to agility drill 3, this drill offers a little more challenge to the co-ordination of the athlete by having them side-step in and out of cones before a sprint.
Agility Drill 9
This drill can be performed as part of a warm-up or as a separate agility drill.
Sport Books: Football, Rugby, and more
Six of the best sports books of 2005
The Importance of Proprioceptive Training
Proprioception – taking a balanced approach to sport
Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?
Half-Time Training for Team Sports
Half Time Strategy - Temperature
Coping With The Effects of Temperature on The Pitch
Powerful, Accurate and Injury Free Kicking - A Mental Guide
Kicking Training for Rugby and Football
Caring For Your Spine
Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape
Skills Based Training: Female Games Players
Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training
Supplements: Glucosamine
Does glucosamine really work?
Can Athletes Dance Their Way to Agility?
Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power
weight training systems
Weight Training Systems : Weight train your hormones
biopsychosocial pain
Biopsychosocial Pain : Pain and brain - the biopsychosocial method of chronic injury rehabilitation
strength training for children
Strength Training For Children : Why young athletes should be encouraged to work out with weights
metabolic rate
Metabolic Rate : The metabolic impact of exercise - or how your body works out while you put your feet up
rotational power
Building rotational power: all you need to know about getting in shape to perform zippy turns on the hoof
underperformance syndrome
Underperformance Syndrome - how youth rugby coaches are using psychology to raise their players' game
speed agility quickness training | SAQ training
Speed agility quickness - SAQ training
self confidence
The majestic self-confidence of Jonny Wilkinson - or how expectations can make or break your performance
sport specific weight training
Sport specific weight training
training for football and rugby
Football and rugby teams pre-season training
Fitness programmes
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
fitness program
Fitness program - How to design a sports-specific fitness program
Speed Training
Speed Training: How the Frappier super treadmill helps athletes run faster
British sports coaches | Australian sports coaches
Why blinkered British coaches have a lot to learn from Aussie champions
Running economy 2
Running Economy 2: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?
Resistance Training
Resistance Training: Resistance Training: The message has got through to adults: should they keep it to themselves or pass it down to the juniors?
Fitness for football
Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
Speed Training
Speed Training: Talking turkey: why hill work helps athletes in football, rugby, basketball, cricket - and even running
Trigger points - a warning sign of serious injury
Tigger Points: what they are, how they happen and what to do about them
bilateral co-ordination | training
Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player
psychometric testing | sports training
Psychometric testing: How the Giants kicked tradition into touch with psychometric testing
referees
Pity the poor referee - he gets all of the stress and none of the lolly
squatting exercises | knee injuries | spine injuries
How safe is squatting? Does it injure the knees or even the spine? Here's an exhaustive review of the research
Flexibility | Stretching
Flexibility and Stretching: Two sports physiotherapists show why flexibility is so important, and explain the science behind it
Pressure training sessions
Pressure Training Sessions: How to keep your skills even when all about you are losing theirs.
track and field workouts
Track And Field Workouts: Phasing the year properly means allowing your athletes a chance to be serviced, oiled and refitted.
Muscle Imbalance
Muscle Imbalance: Why detecting muscle imbalance is an essential part of an injury-prevention strategy
mental fitness
Mental Fitness: When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best
Power Training
Power Training: How contrast power training maximises performance
Shin splints 1
Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems
Sports Injuries | headaches
The case of the ex-rugby player with a mysterious headache
Shoulder instability
Shoulder Instability: Should you consider shrinking your shoulder?
Caffeine
Caffeine proves less of a help to team sports sprinters
Training dietary regimes
Training Dietary Regimes: You can lead a footballer to a proper diet, but can you make him eat it?
Conditioning
Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.
Nose strips | Breathe Right External Nasal Dilator,
Here's the scientific verdict on those nose strips - the damned things don't work
anaerobic performance testing
Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.
anaerobic performance testing
Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.
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