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Ladder Drill Hopping Two Forward One Back
This drill is great for developing uni-lateral (one foot) coordination as it challenges the movement skills of athletes. Hopping drills are also great for developing lower leg strength and power.
Inspiratory Muscle Training: Ergogenic Benefits
Inspiratory muscle training as an ergogenic aid: the story so far
Olympic rowing training programme
Eight-month training plan to improve all aspects of rowing
Football training: the importance of testing for players and coaches
Testing is an objective way of confirming a coach or manager's thoughts
Endurance training: building a strong base is the key to achieving optimum running fitness
Specialist running journalist Andy Barber talks to top endurance coach Nick Anderson
Strength training: focusing power on the movements and speed used in specific sports situations
Using power in specific sport situations
Core strengthening: resistance training
See main article for full workout
Plyometrics: including jumping exercises in your training programme can improve performance
Good jumping ability is a prerequisite for superior performance
Diabetes in sport: how athletes can train and compete with the right treatment
The relationship between the athlete, diabetes and sport
Concurrent training: how to simultaneously train upper and lower body strength, muscular endurance and flexibility
Training several aspects of fitness at once
Training plan: monitoring your training intensity
Is your training diary a load of nonsense?
Cross Training: can boxing training be used for other sports?
Can boxing fitness help non-boxers improve their performance?
Periodization: planning your training for optimal sports performance
Planning your sports training to ensure maximum performance gains
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
Endurance: Hill Training
Endurance training: hill training for endurance
Olympic Gold Medal Winners' Training Tips
What makes an Olympic Champion?
Tabata Interval Training for Strength and Endurance
Time-efficient strength and endurance workout
Football Training Drills for Improving Energy Systems During Pre-season
Football Tips and Exercises to Make You Ready for the New Season
Rugby Training: Secrets of the Rugby World Cup Players
Scotland's Rugby Fitness Coach shares his rugby training tips
Zone Training: Planning Your Cycling Training Program
Zone Training for Cycling to help you get the Yellow Jersey
Weight Training Routines for Rugby Players
A rugby tackle requires explosive power – here are some strength training tips on how to get it
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
Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics
Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further
Constructing a Sports-specific Training Circuit - Part One
How to Construct a Training Circuit for your Sport - Rowing example
Core Training Program
Core Training Part One
The Amazing Peak Performance Christmas Competition
And The Winner Is...
Sandbag Shoulder Press Throw
Sandbags are an effective low cost alternative to medicine ball.
Fitness training survey results
Peak Performance fitness training survey shows you don’t need the gym for sports training
Children participating in swimming training exhibit increased oxidative stress
Oxidative stress in swimmers
World-class tennis conditioning
A real case study
Squash, Badminton, and Tennis players: Improve your power!
Big hitting for racquet sports players – prepare yourself!
Can Vibration Training Enhance Sports Performance?
All Shook Up
Active Recovery Uncovered
When active recovery doesn’t work
Face-cooling improves sports performance
The effects of face-cooling during hyperthermic exercise
Football 'Throw-ins': Attaining maximum distance
Attaining maximum distance in football ‘throw-ins’
Sports Psychology and Yoga
How yoga and motivation exercises boost performance
Sports Psychology: Be Creative!
'Tuning up' performance - music and videos as ergogenic aids
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
The Importance of Proprioceptive Training
Proprioception – taking a balanced approach to sport
Low-intensity workouts lead to weight loss
Exercise intensity and weight loss
The Risks of Overtraining
Intense training - can you have too much of a good thing?
Simulated Altitude Training Report
Simulated Altitude Exposure Doesn't Work
Cycling Training improves sports performance
Can bike training improve the performance of non-cycling athletes?
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
Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?
Half-Time Training for Team Sports
Diabetes - how it affects sports and how to combat it
diabetes and sports performance
Vibration Training and Performance
Can vibration training enhance Sports Performance?
Powerful, Accurate and Injury Free Kicking - A Mental Guide
Kicking Training for Rugby and Football
Body Fat and Running Performance
Optimum Running Performance and Body Fat Levels
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
Managing Pain in Athletes
What are the best ways to cope with sports pain? And how do different people react to the same injury?
Acceleration Training for Peak Performance
learn how to increase speed to make a quick getaway
Football coaching - half time psychology
Make sure your football coaching mentally prepares you for the second half!
Caring For Your Spine
Core strengthening to keep your spine in good shape
Altitude Training: big help?
Can altitude training help endurance athletes reach new heights?
Exercise Special - wake up your body and brain
A hand to knee reaction drill to improve speed, power and strength
Building Speed and Endurance
Building Speed Before Endurance: time to turn convention on the head?
Skills Based Training: Female Games Players
Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training
Supplements: Glucosamine
Does glucosamine really work?
Injury Recovery and Conditioning
Want to know the key to training success? Plenty of R&R
Time Efficient Running - run less to run faster?
Running efficiency training ideas
Can Athletes Dance Their Way to Agility?
Dance Training for Agility, Speed and Power
Interval Training and Fitness for Cyclists
Cycling - the road to success
Backwards Running : The benefits of training backwards
Backwards Running : The benefits of training backwards
Sports Science Glossary Part 5
Sports Science Glossary Part 5
Sports Science Glossary Part 7
Sports Science Glossary Part 7
Sports Science Glossary Part 1
Sports Science Glossary Part 1
Sport Motivation
Sport Motivation : To create a positive motivational climate you need more carrot than stick
scientific training | marathon training
Scientific training: How one former couch potato found a talent and then called on the appliance of science to become an elite performer
scientific training | marathon training
Scientific training: How one former couch potato found a talent and then called on the appliance of science to become an elite performer
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