Interval Training Can Improve Cardiovascular Health in Children
Obesity and inactivity is a growing cause for concern in the younger generations. While youth sport thrives, the gap between sporty and sedentary grows. While schools do their...
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Youth Conditioning
Sports Specialisation at a Young Age: Risk, Reward?
Sports specialisation or early specialisation, refers to intense and very specific focus on one sport from a young age. Normally, the reason or thought behind this is that by...
Don’t lose sight of the big wins
As UK Sport has become more successful, some of the research and habits behind our elite athletes emerges in the public domain. Team GB has enjoyed increasingly successful...
Thinking Long Term in Pre-Season Training
Many athletes are now coming to the end of the competitive season. Those involved in traditional team sports have been training and competing for 8-9 months! It is important...
Building mentally tough young athletes
Late spring / early summer represents an intense period of the sporting year for young athletes across many different sports. Team sports athletes are reaching the end of...
Training Age, Specialisation and Exercise Selection
Specialisation refers to training with a narrow focus, directly linked to the actions and movements used within a sport itself. There has long been a debate as to what age...
Life is Life: Dealing with Mistakes in Sport and Performance
For this blog post I am going to do something a little different. While I normally like to focus on training trends, research and more of the sciency technical stuff, this is...
Comparing youth sports performances too early
Be careful not to write off young under performers in sport too soon. In any sport across any age group there will be a range of performance levels. From the young age group...
Monitoring Fatigue, Wellness and Recovery in Youth Athlete
A good balance between training stress and recovery is essential for sports performance. In order to adapt effectively, sessions must deliver a strong stimulus without killing...