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If you participate in any team sports, these articles are for you. Whether you looking to improve your football skills, basketball skills or some new hints for sports coaching, all the fitness training information is here… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.
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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!
Rugby Training: Secrets of the Rugby World Cup Players
Scotland's Rugby Fitness Coach shares his rugby training tips
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
Baseball Techniques Video: Pitching in baseball
Brad Arnsberg from Toronto Blue Jays demonstrates how to pitch in baseball
Soccer players' balance is inferior
Comparison of standing balance in dancers and football players
Team sports have sports psychology benefits
Never walk alone
Motivation in Sports Psychology
The motivational dynamics of sport
Sport Books: Football, Rugby, and more
Six of the best sports books of 2005
Caffeine in team sports
How caffeine boosts team play
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
The Observer Sports Monthly recently unveiled its Top 50 Sports Books
Sports Books : A tour de force about the Tour de France
psychology sport
Sport psychology demystified - or not
sports psychology article
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
soccer fitness training
Soccer fitness training: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
training for football and rugby
Football and rugby teams pre-season training
Team Sports: Team Cohesion and Success: What Is the Link?
Team Sports Cohesion and Success: What Is the Link?
Warming up and cooling down: how to prepare as a substitute
Warming up, substitute players & sitting on the bench
Fitness for football
Fitness For Football: Endurance training boosts performance in the field
Nutrition for soccer players
Nutrition for soccer players: How soccer players can overcome the second-half slump.
The eyes: soccer
The Eyes: Soccer: What makes a topnotch football player different from a mediocre performer? One key difference is in the way their eyes move, according to researchers at the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester.
Attitude training
Attitude Training: "Who is going to win? I am going to win!"
Motivation
Motivation: Here's how to design a self-determined training programme that will drive you to new heights
Soccer Refs
Top flight soccer refs cover 11k-plus per match, says new study
Caffeine
Caffeine proves less of a help to team sports sprinters
weight and performance
Weight And Performance: If you want to win more races, lose some weight.
Biological clocks
Biological clock-watching can give your performance an extra boost.
aerobic energy system | football
Football: What are the energy demands in this "maximal intermittent exercise"?
Leg strength | knee injury risks
Leg strength and knee injury risks for endurance athletes: If you're a footballer, your knees are most at risk towards the end of a match.
Boosting performance
Boosting Performance: This new study shows that extra carbohydrate can boost performance in elite team-sport athletes as well.
Winning
Winning: The relevant question is not "Did you win?" but "Did you come up to your expectations?"
Pre season training for soccer and rugby
Conference Report: How football and rugby teams should train before the season begins.
Winning: 1
If you want to reach your peak level of performance and be a winner, especially in an endurance sport, you must accomplish five critical tasks:
Training to Win
To win, you must prepare yourself to be the winner - not simply to "do my best"
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.
Australian swimming | British winning
Australian swimming inspires five tips to help produce more British medalists at Sydney 2000
Hydration
Hydration: Drink your way to winning performances: the seven secrets of hydration.
Black and white: a comparison
Is it their high-intensity training that makes black African runners so fast?
soccer exercise | aerobic system
Soccer exercise energy demands
Nutrition for Football Players | Football Diet
Diet and nutrition for football players: How soccer players can overcome the second-half slump.
soccer injuries | hip injuries
Soccer injuries: Why ex-pro soccer players have hip problems
soccer injuries | hip injuries
Soccer injuries: Why ex-pro soccer players have hip problems


































