Sport Specific Articles
The sport specific articles are grouped under the following headings. To view the available articles select the appropriate link.
| Basketball | Boxing | Cycling | Football |
| Golf | Rowing | Rugby | Squash |
| Swimming | Tennis | Triathlon |
Basketball
Boxing
Cycling
- How to prepare a Cycle training program
- Importance of bike set-up in avoiding cycling injuries
- Specificity and variety in cycling
Football
- Acceleration techniques and speed development
- Agility Training to meet the demands of field games
- Energy demands of football
- Fluid Replacement
- How to improve the function of the hamstring muscle group for speed
- How to prepare a football training program
- How to win the penalty mind game
- Hip flexors - the most underdeveloped muscle group in strength training
- Interval Training for football players
- Interval training for the games player
- Kicking Accuracy
- Medicine ball workouts that can do wonders for your running velocity and power
- Nutritional advice for football players
- The ups and downs of hill training
- The performance benefits of flexibility training
- Train like an athlete
- Vertical Jump Secrets
- Football Practice - how to get football fit
Golf
- Golf - it is all in the swing and the mind
- Golfers Elbow, Elbow Tendonitis and Elbow Pain
- Golf Specific Injury Overview
- Getting to grips with the golfing yips
- Warm up for Golf
Rowing
- Concept 2 Rowing Step Test- Monitor anaerobic threshold
- Rowing - The physical demands
- Visual feedback to change rowing technique
Rugby
- Acceleration techniques and speed development
- Agility Training to meet the demands of field games
- Assessment of rugby training needs
- Does pre-season strength training protect rugby players from non-contact injury?
- Fitness standards for rugby
- Hip flexors - the most underdeveloped muscle group in strength training
- How to improve the function of the hamstring muscle group for speed
- How to plan a Rugby training program
- Interval training for the games player
- Medicine ball workouts that can do wonders for your running velocity and power
- Serious back training for rugby players
- Strength and power training
- Squat or ScrumTruk: which is best for quadriceps training for athletes?
- The benefits of explosive strength training for rugby football
- The performance benefits of flexibility training
- The ups and downs of hill training
- Train like an athlete
- Training to increase energy supplies
- Vertical Jump Secrets
- Why do rugby players scrum and maul at such different body heights?
- Stamina - the unwelcome word in rugby training
Squash
- Get a grip - relevancy for your sport
- How to Squash in the Training
- Planning a Squash Training program
- Plyometrics for Squash
- Preparing yourself for competitive play
- Injury prevention for tennis and other racket sports
Swimming
- Critical Swim Speed
- Effective breathing, whilst swimming, is all in the balance
- How to get into shape for swimming
- How to prepare a swimming training program
- Strength Training for swimmers
- Stroke your way to faster times
- Swimming Technique - Backstroke
- Swimming Technique - Breaststroke
- Swimming Technique - Butterfly
- Swimming Technique - Freestyle (Crawl)
- Swimming - Why high-intensity training is a better than high-volume training
- How to master the top five challenges to breathing in freestyle
- How to use rough water conditions to your advantage
- How to surviving the triathlon start
Tennis
- Get a grip - relevancy for your sport
- Give Tennis the Elbow
- How to prepare a Tennis training program
- Interval training for the games player
- Injury prevention for tennis and other racket sports
Triathlon
- Training for the Triathlon
- Any change of pace is good for your running
- Effective breathing, whilst swimming, is all in the balance
- How to get into shape for swimming
- Pedal your way to success
- Triathletes - Stroke your way to faster times
- Triathletes are right to combine cycling and running in the same training session
- Tri speed development
- Triathlon swimming - wetsuit considerations
- Will having a "long stroke" help triathlon swimmers?
- How to master the top five challenges to breathing in freestyle
- Surviving the Triathlon swim section
- Cycle to Run Transition
- How to surviving the triathlon start
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Associated Pages
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