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Sports Equipment: is GPS the best route to performance analysis?

GPS can provide coaches and athletes with invaluable information, enhancing training programmes and performance

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Strength training for distance runners

Can lifting weights help middle distance runners run faster or further with no corresponding improvements in aerobic fitness?

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Sports injuries: preventing and treating hypothermia and cold weather related...

How to make the most of your training in cold weather

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Cycling Training: how to use GPS to improve performance

How to use GPS information technology to investigate, monitor and refine cycling training and racing

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Conditioning and physiology: how to train and compete in hot weather

Why hot-weather training is a delicate balance between staying cool and hydrated while performing at a competitive level

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Sports psychology: the theory of the decision training model in sport

Decision training is one way of developing intelligent athletes who can cut it in the chaotic sporting environment

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Sports injuries: prevention and treatment of groin pain and the dreaded hernia

Understanding and dealing with hernia in sport

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Recovery training: the importance of recovery and various recovery strategies...

The importance of recovery for sportsmen and women of all disciplines

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Physiology in sport: keeping your hands cool can help your performance

Why cooling your hands provides performance benefits in hot conditions

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Cycling training: recent research on bone density in pro cyclists makes for...

Cycling has traditionally been regarded as one of the healthiest sports around

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Acupuncture: is there any point?

Sports therapy: What athletes should know about using acupuncture to improve sport performance

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Sudden Cardiac Death and how to stop it happening

Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy and its effects

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Sports Drinks

When sports drinks don’t work

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Osteoarthritis in former Elite Tennis players

Does tennis lead to shoulder disease?

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High-intensity training

High-intensity training: one size doesn’t fit all

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Yo-yo dieting and middle age waistlines

Yo-yo dieting

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Sleep deprivation

Sleep your way to better performance

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Ageing and Performance

Muscle power and strength

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Fatmax: fat fact or fat fiction?

The loss of excess fat isn’t just aesthetic – it almost always produces enhanced performance

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Maximising the Anabolic Response to Training

Nick Tiller presents six evidence-driven but seldom practised methods by which athletes can promote the anabolic process to maximise training adaptation, promote recovery and improve athletic performance.

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Caffeine: old friend, new findings!

Andrew Hamilton explains new research about training and competing with caffeine supplements

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Focusing attention on concentration

Attentional control in sport

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Interval training: good for health as well as performance!

Intervals benefit performance at all levels of sport

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The psychology of speed training

Mental preparation to enhance speed training and improve performance

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Resistance training and muscle protein synthesis

Latest research to increase strength and muscle mass

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Athletes: Posture comes before training

The components of posture and its importance for athletes

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Recovery: Cold water immersion (CWI) and the importance of sleep

The role of sleep in recovery

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Serving up an evidence-based training plan for tennis players

Help tennis players cope with the physiological demands

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Ageing athletes and the power of psychology

How to develop a mental edge as you age

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Carbohydrate drinks, gels and bars

Why two carbs are better than one

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