Training for master athletes: plyometrics, explosive and maximal strength training

Osteoarthritis: What happens when you hang up your sports kit - for good?

Female athlete triad: Most elite athletes at risk of 'triad'

Degenerative joints - The best foods and supplements to protect your joints from age-related degeneration

Fitness and brain power - How fitness protects the ageing brain

Power v endurance: what goes first in the ageing stakes?

Bone Maintenance in Older Runners

Creatine: Sedentary elderly gain most from creatine supplementation

Stitch Pain - The biggest pain for athletes

Nutritional Tips: A quick sampling of health & fitness boosters from PP's library of research.

Strength And Endurance

Dhea Danger And Dhea Benefits: Is DHEA really, as some suggest, the fountain of youth in a bottle?

Humidity and Performance

Report On Blood Lactate 2: Things your mother forgot to tell you about blood lactate

Age And Exercise: Just a few years ago, exercise experts were certain about one thing: once endurance athletes reached the age of 35, there was no turning back. At 35, aerobic capacity began a steady decline, slow at first, but picking up momentum once athletes reached their mid-forties and then plunging out of control at about the age of 60. It was believed that very little could be done to alter this unremitting loss of fitness

Age related training - To limit the effects of time,you must choose the right workouts.

For endurance athletes, two of the key problems associated with getting older are a gradual decline in muscle mass and a potential loss of bone density. The missing muscle makes it more difficult to run, cycle or swim powerfully, and the shrinking bones increase the likelihood of injury and osteoporosis.

Rub on skin creams for injuries: real relief or just quackery?

Performance Secrets: This new research suggests that sometimes the most important thing is what you DON'T do.