All athletes are nervous before a competition, this is natural, but often it results in a lack of confidence in the athlete. The aim is to refocus the athlete to be positive and confident in their ...

Nigel Hetherington reviews the latest research material relating to coaching, exercise physiology, and athletic development. In many sports, the importance of the athlete achieving a consistent level ...

This page aims to help you develop your imagery (visualisation) skills. We will look at the elements of imagery development and the creation of scripts to improve your imagery skills. Imagery needs to ...

Performance is an assessment of how well a task is executed, and the success of a training program depends on satisfying the performance aims. In constructing tests, it is vital to ensure that they ...

Testing and measurement are the means of collecting information upon which subsequent performance evaluations and decisions are made. In the analysis, we need to bear in mind the factors influencing ...

In a study [2] the fascicle (muscle bundle) length of the human medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle was monitored to evaluate possible input from the short-latency stretch reflex (<55ms, SLR) during the ...

The foot is placed up to the starting line but not on it. The feet are about shoulder-width apart to obtain a well-balanced position. The weight is distributed so that about 2/3rds of the weight is on ...

The dynamic exercises you incorporate into your warm-up program should be appropriate to the movements you would experience in your sport/event. The following are examples of dynamic stretching and ...

Before starting any training, you must have a medical examination to ensure it is safe for you to do so. Any training program application is at the athlete's discretion and risk.

The extent of bleeding will depend on the tissues' vascularity and may be increased if injured during exercise. In many instances, no matter how small the injury, tissues will have either been ...

Fartlek, developed in the 1930s, comes from the Swedish for 'Speed Play' and combines continuous and interval training. FFartlek allows athletes to run at varying intensity levels over their chosen ...