During the season, you can often be so focused on the next match, race or event that you don’t have a chance to work on aspects of your athleticism that, while they may not give immediate payoff, lay the groundwork for future success…
Maintain Strength & Power during Competition
Your Competition Period is the most important time of the sporting calendar: all of your attention must be put towards competing. This means you might have little time or energy for Strength & Power training. However, it is important to continue doing some S&C work for its effects on performance, and reductions on injury risk…
How to Perform your Best on Game Day
As an athlete, the vast majority of the time you spend on your sport will be in training. Between tactical training, physical preparation, Strength & Conditioning, watching film or videos, training will almost always take far more time than the competition itself. Despite this time commitment, it’s the competition, race, game day or event that actually matters…
The lead up to competition can be a stressful time, and often that stress can hinder your chances of a successful performance. There are various inputs to your performance, and in this article we will be looking at your physical training (Strength & Conditioning), fuelling and recovery (Nutrition), and your mindset & focus (Psychology), and how to use them to your advantage to prepare…
How to Maximise Power Production for Sport
Power is often talked about in sports, and for good reason. It is one of the main components of physical development, and is arguably the most important physical factor in team sports. But what exactly is Power, why does it matter so much, and how do we measure and improve your power? Power is defined as Force*Velocity, and in sports that means using strength at speed…
The Benefits of Strength and Conditioning in Team Sports
Historically strength and conditioning (S&C) was a reserved addition to professional teams at the highest echelons of sport - at least that’s what you’d think given that S&C as a degree or career choice has occurred fairly recently. However, when you understand what S&C is - what it sets out to achieve - you’ll see that it’s always been there, at multiple levels in a disordered and unorganised format....
Application of strength and conditioning in team sports
Team sports, to a greater extent than many individual sports, rely on tactical and skill components that for a long time were seen as the only thing that separated success from failure..
Foundations of Performance: Strength in team sports
Strength is often assumed to be the main priority of a strength and conditioning coach, people wrongly ignore the conditioning part in some cases. When you fully understand strength in its entirety and various forms it is easy to see why as coaches we can become a little bias…
Can an athlete ever be strong enough?
No an athlete can never be strong enough. However there are some drawbacks to this concept as it is important an athlete recognises the distribution of their training content for the different physical qualities required in their sport performance....
Top 5 strength exercises for sports performance
Strength underpins all movements in sport performance and the improvement of strength has been shown to reduce injury risk. Every time we move as athletes and humans, we require force production. the more force production capability we have...
Top 5 power exercises for sports performance
Power is an important component of all sports performance. The combination of strength and speed results in power, all three of which can be trained and improved. Rather than exclusive characteristics of moment they are all somewhere on a continuum between absolute max strength and absolute max speed...