Endurance Strength Training - Optimising muscle mass

Oxidative stress in swimmers

Power output and lean body mass – how do rowers compare with other athletes?

How To Train For A Triathlon : Your complete strength and conditioning programme

Sports psychology article: Beset by 'Olympic phobia' and lacking in focus and toughness: a sport psychologist's damning verdict on the underperforming GB swim team

Body Composition - Fat Measurement: How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?

The importance of paying attention in sport

Swimmers need to follow a programme of exercises that replicate their actions in the water as closely as possible.

Post Workout Burn: After you've finished a workout, your body is not finished working.

Eating Disorder Athletes

Swimming workouts & swimming strength training

Motivation: Here's how to design a self-determined training programme that will drive you to new heights

Lactate Threshold: 2-2 T-20: Since I first started attaching a fairly specific intensity to lactate-threshold workouts about 10 years ago, the whole idea of threshold training seems to have gained in popularity.

Blood Cholesterol Levels: Swimming sometimes gets a bad rap. Although the sport provides a fine cardiovascular workout and bolsters overall aerobic capacity, some studies have shown that regular swimming doesn't reduce - and may even increase - body fatness. Also, the effect of swimming on blood-cholesterol levels has been uncertain.

How a spoonful of sugar helps keep your muscle protein from going down

Sequencing In Training 1: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness

Time-splitting And Race Results: If it makes sense to run the second half faster than the first, then why do the Kenyans
go out so fast?

Genetics And Performance: Now science is getting to the long and the short of how genes influence performance

Interval Training 2: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts

Why 'the curse' is often lifted for female athletes

Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?

Why MCTs alone don't work. It's important to bear in mind that the MCTs had to be ADDED to carbohydrate in order to shore up performance; the MCT-only drink produced terrible results.

Stress Fracture: One in ten of all sports injuries is a stress fracture. Here's how to break the pattern..

Exercise | Pregnancy: Is it safe to exercise when you're pregnant? Here's what science has to say

Hand Paddles: Considerable attention has been paid to the possible advantages of using hand paddles during training.

Mood States: High-level college swimmers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the States were studied for a research project published in 1991.

Distance Running & Testosterone: Can distance running determine the sex of your children

Glycaemic Index: Things mother forgot to tell you about the glycaemic index of your food - and how it influences your training

Muscle building: Squats, leg press or knee extensions - which exercise is best for the quads?

Critical Swim Speed: This reliable test of aerobic capacity is non-invasive and easy to do.

Quantifying Intensity: How to use heart rate to quantify your fitness training intensity.

Fluid Replacement: Are sports drinks suitable for interval workouts as well?

Case study: a swimmer with left-sided thoracic pain and shoulder pain.

Stored Elastic Energy: Imagine the athletes' muscles are like the rubbery part of a catapult...

Female and male athletes seem to respond to training in a comparable manner. As the quantity or intensity of training increases, aerobic capacity (V02max) shoots upward, body fat tends to decrease, and performance improves, regardless of gender.

Just how good is exercise for you? Damn good. In addition to improving your fitness and giving you more energy to carry out your everyday activities, regular exercise can limit your chances of suffering from a number of deadly - and not-so-deadly - diseases.