Soccer fitness: endurance matters but intensity is king!

in Endurance training, High intensity training, Training structure and planning

Alan Wells outlines the fitness requirements of elite soccer and provides the latest evidence-based recommendations for coaches and players MORE

Female athlete injuries: are ladies really the weaker sex?

in Endurance health and lifestyle, Endurance injuries and health, Muscles and tendons, Overuse injuries, Strength, conditioning and flexibility

Female athletes suffer more sports injuries than their male counterparts. but Jason Tee explains why it might not be down to female frailty! MORE

Win at all costs? Not if long-term success matters!

in Coping with emotions, Endurance health and lifestyle, Endurance psychology, Mental drills

Olympian medalist Dr Cath Bishop explores the potential pitfalls of a ‘it’s the winning that counts’’ mindset, and suggests a superior and more holistic approach to competition MORE

Endurance training: key leg strength training exercises for athletes

in Techniques

Walt Reynolds explores the key leg strength exercises for endurance performance MORE

Sports Injuries: overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome

in Endurance health and lifestyle

Dr Lee Crust describes the psychological and physical challenges of overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome Once dismissed as ‘all in the mind’, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is now recognised as a serious and debilitating condition. Lee Crust explores how athletes can overcome CFS and provides a valuable insight based on his own experiences.Like many athletes, I... MORE

Motivation in Sports Psychology

in Coping with emotions

The motivational dynamics of sport The 34th President of the US, Dwight D Eisenhower, once said that ‘motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it’. And as Dr Costas Karageorghis explains, recent research suggests that he wasn’t far wrong. Even better, changing... MORE

Female Endurance Running

in Base endurance training

Why don’t women don’t slow down as much as men when they go for the long one? Owen Anderson explains… If a man and woman cross the finish line of a 10K race at the same time, you can usually be sure of one thing: the woman will beat the man if they run a... MORE