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Agility training: how to develop an athletes reaction time
A training programme to improve your reaction time
Back to basics with circuit training
An introduction to how and why you should include circuits in your training
Master training: the importance of maintaining strength and power
Training for master athletes: plyometrics, explosive and maximal strength training
Training plan: monitoring your training intensity
Is your training diary a load of nonsense?
Periodization: planning your training for optimal sports performance
Planning your sports training to ensure maximum performance gains
Overtraining – do it right or pay the price!
Pushing the boundaries in training is essential for any athlete seeking maximum performance. But as James Marshall explains, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it
Triathlon – why swimming, cycling and running training is not enough
Triathlon may be the ultimate test of cardiovascular endurance, but according to Nick Grantham, triathletes who neglect musculoskeletal strength and flexibility will never fulfil their true potential
The test of time – testing and tapering for a cycling PB!
The test of time – testing and tapering for a cycling PB!
Tabata Interval Training for Strength and Endurance
Time-efficient strength and endurance workout
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?
Vibration Training to Enhance Speed, Power and Flexibility
Increasing Speed with Vibration Training
Weight Training Routines for Rugby Players
A rugby tackle requires explosive power – here are some strength training tips on how to get it
Women's Rugby: Resistance training for rugby
A women's rugby trainer divulges her rugby conditioning secrets from the World Cup
Fitness training survey results
Peak Performance fitness training survey shows you don’t need the gym for sports training
Active Recovery Uncovered
When active recovery doesn’t work
Periodisation: Organise your Training Year
Training periodisation - why it could pay to use your block
Sports Science of Combat Sport Training
Fighting fit! – the scientific approach to combat sport training
Training programmes: Benefit from Hip extension
Standing machine hip flexion
Strength Exercises: Squats
Squats – new research on an old favourite
The Importance of Proprioceptive Training
Proprioception – taking a balanced approach to sport
Improve Rowing Performance
Power to the people – maximising your 2,000m rowing performance
The Science and Practice of Sports Motivation
Use Mental and Physical Sports Motivation
A Guide And Advice to Effective Supplement Usage
A Guide And Advice to Effective Supplement Usage
Cycling Injury: Choose The Right Bike To Avoid Injury
How Choosing The Right Bike Can Help Avoid Injury
Diabetes - how it affects sports and how to combat it
diabetes and sports performance
Half Time Strategy - Temperature
Coping With The Effects of Temperature on The Pitch
Heart Vitality Training and Heart Rate Monitors as Aids to Athletic Performance
Athletic Performance - keeping your cardiovascular system in shape
Sports News: Cycling Training
Cycling Training and how carbohydrate, torso training and building endurance can help
How to prevent competition anxiety from getting the better of you!
Don't let competition anxiety get the better of you
Research Round-Up: endurance, ergogenic drugs, hydration and vibration
endurance, ergogenic drugs, hydration and vibration
Press-Ups, A New Take On An Old Favourite
Press-Ups - varying approaches to ensure you get the most
Cycling Training
Physiological Assessment in Cycling
Backwards Running : The benefits of training backwards
Backwards Running : The benefits of training backwards
plyometrics
Plyometrics : Do plyometrics work for the upper body?
split squat
The split squat
speed training workouts
Speed Training Workouts : Is over-speed training over-hyped?
Body composition
Body composition and sport - why weight is a poor performance indicator
cold injuries
Cold injuries: How to protect your performance as well as your health against the chill winds of winter
training schedules
Training schedules: Three ways to quantify and evaluate your training - and make sure you are achieving what your coach has planned for you
frappier acceleration program
Frappier acceleration program
Human Growth Hormone | hGH
Human growth hormone hGH - Don't waste money - and risk your reputation on human growth hormone; make your own instead!
distance running training
Distance running training - How
sport specific weight training
Sport specific weight training
Weight Training
Weight Training
Periodisation to improve sports performance (1)
Periodisation: why you’ll never get better if you always do what you’ve always done.
Periodisation to improve sports performance (2)
Periodisation: Why you’ll never get better if you always do what you’ve always done.
Female Athletes: Strength training exercises for knee injuries
Why do female athletes hurt their knees so often - and how can they protect themselves from knee injuries?
Running training: how to construct a year long training plan for runners
Sport-specific training
Bodybuilders
Bodybuilders: Do bodybuilders need massive amounts of extra protein?
Phasing your training programme will maintain high performance levels all year round
Phasing the year allows athletes to recover, improve and analyse their performance
Motivation
Motivation: Here's how to design a self-determined training programme that will drive you to new heights
The mile
To commemorate Roger Bannister's celebrated feat in 1954, here is a new training regime for your own "miracle" mile based on recent research carried out in the US at George Washington University and the University of Rhode Island.
Visual training
Why visual training programmes for sport don't work
weight training vests | ankle weights
Weight training vests and ankle weights: wearing ankle weights and a weight training vests can help you run faster - but do it slowly
10k training
10k training: What does science have to say about the right training programme for the 10K?
strength training routines | strength training programmes | strength training
Strength training routines: most runners think that strength training routines are something carried out in a weight room or gym utilising various pieces of equipment (barbells, dumbbells, weight machines, etc.).
Carbohydrates
Carbos are just for endurance athletes, aren't they? Not necessarily - although there is little documented information on the relationship between carbo-hydrate ingestion and resistance exercise, it's common practice for weightlifters, body builders, powerlifters and other athletes involved in resistance training programmes to consume carbohydrate drinks with the hope of improving their performance.
endurance training | Noel frost | rowing
In late 1996, at the age of 57, Noel Frost set two rowing world records in his sector - 55-59 male (heavy) - for the 30- and 60-minute distances. Here he describes months 2 and 3 of the training programme that led to the achievement
Achilles heel, tendons, achilles tendinitis therapy and surgery
Achilles tendinitis interrupts many training programmes and ruins many plans for PBs. It is also the most common injury in athletes over the age of 40, and - unfortunately - it's a problem which doesn't go away very quickly: Traditional treatments for Achilles tendinitis (ie, rest, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, orthotics, cortisone injections, icing, ultrasound, and conventional physical therapy) are not very successful, and about 25 per cent of athletes who suffer from chronic Achilles-tendinitis problems end up undergoing surgery.
Sub 4 minute mile
Sub 4 Minute Mile: Here's a training programme designed to crack the ultimate goal: the sub-four-minute mile.
Wheelchair athletes training
Wheelchair Athletes Training: A strength and sprint training programme for pre-elite wheelchair athletes
Wheel chair athletes training
Wheel Chair Athletes Training: A strength and sprint training programme for pre-elite wheelchair athletes
Strength training exercises programme for women
Strength Training Exercises Programme For Women: Strength training is vital for women, but the programme depends on their event, not their sex.
Alpine skiing training
Alpine Skiing Training: Whatever sport you take part in, it's wise to remember certain basic principles when devising a training programme.
Periodization training provides athletes with varied and progressive training to ensure constant improvement is achieved
Increasing the quantity and speed of your workouts and varying the frequency with which you train can lead to huge improvements to your performance
V02max training programmes
V02max training programmes: If you want to win, train at a high percentage of V02max.
Bone building
The basis of a healthy body is a strong skeleton. Here's how to look after it.
Slimming
If you want to lose fat, chuck the slimming diet and try resistance training.
Peak performance
Peak Performance: Knowing at what age an athlete is likely to achieve peak performance is a big help in planning a training programme.
Preparing for your first marathon
Preparing For Your First Marathon: If you're planning to run your first marathon this year, as more and more people are, what should you do to prepare for it properly? Experts disagree on the exact details, but it's safe to say that the "more is better" philosophy is currently holding sway.
The protein puzzle
The Protein Puzzle: The all-pervading folklore in strength sports is that you need to pack in the protein. Up to 4g of protein per kg of body weight per day (contrast this with the standard Recommended Daily Allowance of 0.8g/kg) has been recommended - most notably by Eastern bloc coaches and nutritionists. There is evidence that athletes involved in resistance training have a heightened protein requirement. But 4g/kg seems to be way over the top.
Running training: workouts designed to improve technique
These running drills can be used as warm ups and are vital for strengthen specific muscle groups needed for powerful running
Running training: workouts designed to improve technique
These running drills can be used as warm ups and are vital for strengthen specific muscle groups needed for powerful running

































