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Recommended Protein Intake to Build Muscle Mass
Optimum protein intake levels for athletes and when to take protein to build muscle
Squash, Badminton, and Tennis players: Improve your power!
Big hitting for racquet sports players – prepare yourself!
Skills Based Training: Female Games Players
Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training
perceptual training
Perceptual training: how to sense what is happening a split second before others and steal a march on your opponents
sports science
Sports science: What have the sport scientists done for us? Craig Sharp on the interface between knowledge and performance
Orthotics - Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Sports Injuries
Faulty Biomechanics lead to Overuse Injuries
sports vision training
Sports vision - How enhancing your vision can give you that extra edge in competition
Fitness programmes
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
fitness program
Fitness program - How to design a sports-specific fitness program
Sports Injuries: prevention and treatment of tennis elbow
Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis) prevention and treatment
The history of squash: how a ball boy became an undefeated champion.
Squash: The ball-boy servants who watched, waited - and conquered
Creatine improves performance for competitive squash players
Oral creatine supplementation improves exercise performance
Pressure training sessions
Pressure Training Sessions: How to keep your skills even when all about you are losing theirs.
Mental fatigue
Mental Fatigue: When your brain tells you to stop going, here's how to tell it to shut up.
Eating before competition
Eating Before Competition: Can you give your performance an edge by fuelling up before exercise? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes it can even have a negative effect. Here are the guidelines.
Glucose
Glucose: You can lead a muscle to glucose, but can you make it drink?
Building bone-mass
Building Bone-mass: Hoping to build bone mass? Try squash and weight lifting!
Hyperbaric therapy
Hyperbaric Therapy: If you're an injured runner, should you breathe in pure oxygen to hasten the healing process? That's what some sports scientists are recommending, as the inhalation of oxygen under high pressure (also called hyperbaric oxygen therapy) becomes an increasingly popular form of treatment for hurting athletes.
Physiology & performance
What time is it inside your body? The answer may determine the effectiveness of your training - and your performance
Cure For Tennis Elbow
Cure For Tennis Elbow: Follow these rules if you want to avoid - and treat - the dreaded tennis elbow
Sports Knee Braces
Sports Knee Braces: Does wearing a knee brace improve or hamper your ability to perform?
Squash, age, fitness and risk
Squash, Age, Fitness And Risk: New research conducted by T. Reilly and D. Halsall at the Centre for Sport and Exercise at Liverpool John Moore University has shown that regular competitive squash has considerable health benefits but that older recreational players should approach the game with due care.
Achilles heel injury
Achilles Heel Injury Prevention: These exercises can turn your Achilles heel into a rock of Gibraltar
Fat or carbohydrate as fuel?
Fat is on the lips of more and more athletes these days - in both the verbal and gastronomic sense
sports vision
Sports Vision: In most sports, you'll never achieve your true potential if your eyes aren't up to it. Here's a special report on how they can be trained.
sports supplements
Sports Supplements: Here's a survey of what the nutrition experts take
vision in sport
Vision In Sport: A guide to improving performance by training the eyes.
Cross Training Workouts
Cross Training Workouts
Iron: 2
You may have iron in your soul, but have you enough in your body?
Bone building
The basis of a healthy body is a strong skeleton. Here's how to look after it.
Personal experience: longevity
" I am now running, at 59, the sort of times I was running as a 19-year-old National Serviceman" .
Tapering 2
Tapering 2: What form of tapering works best in which sports? Here's a critical review of the research
Sports injury avoidance
Sports Injury Avoidance: Like most athletes, you undoubtedly want to lower your chances of incurring an injury while participating in your favourite sport. Injuries decrease the amount of time you can spend in leisure activities, lower your fitness, downgrade competitive performances, and can lead to long-term health problems such as arthritis and/or joint stiffness.
tendinitis treatment
Tendinitis (inflammation of a muscle tendon) is without doubt the most common cause of lower-leg pain.
Muscle soreness
Muscle Soreness: Try this eccentric method of getting rid of muscle soreness.
Winning: squash
In the weeks building to an important tournament, a squash player needs a workout that can deal with both fitness and skills in a time-efficient way. A "pressure session" can handle both these demands in just 40 minutes and is also extremely specific to the demands of squash.
Sport by sport diet guide
Sport By Sport Diet Guide: Whatever your sport, nutrition should be an integral part of your training and competition strategy. Although the emphasis will vary according to the activity you're involved in, there is a consensus among sports scientists on guidelines that athletes should be aiming for.
Synergy
Synergy: How diet and exercise interact to prevent disease - a research summary.
Synergy
Synergy: How diet and exercise interact to prevent disease - a research summary.


































