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Football training: the importance of testing for players and coaches
Testing is an objective way of confirming a coach or manager's thoughts
Upper body biomechanics: how to test for flexibility, injury and mobility
Functional movement screening
Regularly assessing mobility and stability will give athletes an indication of their functional status and injury risk
MOT your body with functional movement screening
Don’t Be a Slave to Heart Rate Training Zones!
Heart Rate Monitors may not be the best way to predict VO2 Max and monitor overtraining
The test of time – testing and tapering for a cycling PB!
The importance of tapering as part of successful programme design
The effects of cardiovascular endurance and heart rate variablity on performance
Heart rate variability and stress analysis to enhance endurance
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. Have the athlete perform the drill correctly by asking them to start off slowly to get a feel of the movement.
Drugs in Sport: Insulin abuse subject to testing
Insulin cheats beware
Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
Drugs in sport: why testing is not enough
Cycling Training
Physiological Assessment in Cycling
Speed training: testing to find out if your speed is increasing
If you need to know if you’re getting faster over time, these are the tests for you
Electrical Muscle Stimulation
Electrical Muscle Stimulation - Exploding the Myths
Lactic Acid: a fitness assessment to measure your lactate levels
How to keep an eye on your lactate acid levels
The Borg Scale: how accurately does it measure an athlete's training intensity?
How Valid Is the Borg Scale?
Psychometric tests: a case study focusing on rugby league side Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants and their search for a new coach
The role of sports psychology in sport
Predicting your race time with the critical velocity speed test
High-speed running tests are excellent predictors of race finishing times
Aerobic exercise: everything you need to know about Maximal Lactate Steady State Pace
An easy way for runners to estimate Maximal Lactate Steady State pace
anaerobic exercises training
Anaerobic exercises: Two-week training cycle plus 10-day taper leads to huge gains in anaerobic capacity.
Self-assessment
Self-assessment: VO2max is a poor predictor of performance, but computing your velocity at V02max can pay big benefits.
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Veronique Billat - Exercise Research
vo2max
Calculating Vo2max: Make sure you have your doctor's permission before carrying out the following test.
Lactate Testing
Lactate testing: is there any point?
Creatine Effects
Creatine Effects: A man who is showing athletes how to use advances in sports nutrition to produce dramatic improvements in their performances.
Olympics Sex test
Olympics Sex Test: Why the Olympic sex test is outmoded, unnecessary and even harmful.
Lactate threshold heart-rate
Lactate Threshold Heart-rate: A question of distance, and how to work out your lactate threshold heart rate.
anaerobic performance testing
Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.
Heart Rate Monitor Reviews
Heart Rate Monitor Reviews - Is heart rate monitoring of any value?
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