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The Art in Sport

Jim — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:21:34 +0000

“The ability to create sporting performance”. It is generally believed that there are many aspects of sporting performance that can be explained by science and that many sporting performances can be pre planned. I consider that there are so many unpredictable and random aspects in many sporting performances that the ability to adapt and perform in such [...]

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The Art in Sport

Inner Game Ideas - da, da, da, da!

Compression Garments During Competition - Y/N?

Michael — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:11:19 +0000

Compression Garments are mainly promoted as a tool to enhance recovery. But what can they do for you during competition? After consultation with staff at the Australian Institute of Sport, we concluded that compression garments could help with performance by: Helping to keep the athlete warm Decreasing muscle vibration Maybe increasing blood flow [...]

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Compression Garments During Competition - Y/N?

Compression Garments for Athletes

Inner Game Ideas - da, da, da, da!

Michael — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:37:54 +0000

If you’ve read a few of the posts here you’ll know I’m a fan of the Inner Game books by Tim Gallwey. It’s been a while since I read one, so I bought the 2009 version of The Inner Game of Golf to re-read. To be frank, I’m not really a golfer at all – sometimes [...]

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Inner Game Ideas - da, da, da, da!

Off-Season Training and Transition to the New Year

Michael — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:04:05 +0000

The off-season of the training year is obviously the bit between the end of the biggest competition of the year and the start of training for the next season. Probably to make it sound more purposeful, the father of a lot of recent training theory, Tudor Bompa (his main book is Periodization: Theory and Methodology [...]

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Off-Season Training and Transition to the New Year

Exercising With a Cold? Feeling Sick But Guilty for not Training?!

Top Sports Psychologists

Michael — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:10:32 +0000

Over at Sports Mind Skills we recently had a surge in sales of a video by Sports Psychologist Ken Ravizza on Mental Skills for Competitive Athletes . I didn’t know what caused the surge so I checked our stats and saw a lot of people had Googled his name before coming to our site. I Google [...]

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Top Sports Psychologists

Getting to Sleep During Important Competitions

Michael — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:51:46 +0000

Following on from previous blogs about Taking Your Own Pillow and Sleep and Athletic Performance I wanted to continue on the ‘yawn’ theme and write about aiding sleep when nerves might be keeping you up at night. I often had nights during events from club races to World Championships where I couldn’t get to sleep [...]

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Getting to Sleep During Important Competitions

Pacing Strategies for Endurance Sports

Tyson - the Movie and Ticket Give Away!

Michael — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Good news! We’ve got 5 double passes to give away to Australian readers for the new film on boxer Mike Tyson. He may not have been the most popular World Champion out there, but in Tyson the former champion looks at his own life in and out of the ring illustrating his determination and focus to [...]

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Tyson - the Movie and Ticket Give Away!

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Exercising With a Cold? Feeling Sick But Guilty for not Training?!

Michael — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:00:22 +0000

There’s a lot of people suffering colds or flu here in the (now) cold southern hemisphere. In Australia, authorities reckon the swine flu has become unstoppable, with the worst yet to come. The H1N1 virus is worse than a common cold, but is also, of course, over hyped . However, the challenge remains for athletes [...]

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Exercising With a Cold? Feeling Sick But Guilty for not Training?!

Off-Season Training and Transition to the New Year

Why ‘Just Do It’ Works - Athletes and Their Skills

Michael — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:06:46 +0000

This post is based on an interesting article and the comments it attracted in International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching published 2009*. Basically, a couple of investigators from Finland (Yuri Hanin and Muza Hanina) wrote an article called Optimization of Performance in Top-Level Athletes: An Action-Focused Coping Approach. Then, a number of other University-types from [...]

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Why ‘Just Do It’ Works - Athletes and Their Skills

Compression Garments for Athletes

Michael — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:39:40 +0000

Compression pants, socks and tops are increasingly being worn by professional athletes. Here’s our review of the what, why and which of compression garments. Scientific studies with athletes have shown that compression garments may: Reduce blood lactate concentration during maximal exercise bouts and enhance lactate removal and subsequent exercise performance Enhance warm-up [...]

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Compression Garments for Athletes

Compression Garments During Competition - Y/N?