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Just a Little Dehydration Affects Mood

Andrew — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:20:58 +0000

Some interesting research encouraging drinking during your workout has been published recently in the Perceptual and Motor Skills Journal. Conducted by Biological Psychologist Kirsten D’Anci at the prestigious Human Nutrition Research Centre at Tufts University, the study found that athletes who consumed zero fluid during an exercise session reported higher levels of both anger and depression [...]

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Skill Acquisition & Falling Off a Windsurfer

Andrew — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:23:51 +0000

Most of my research for this article involved me spending a lot of the summer falling off a windsurfer. My goal was to teach myself a new skill - how to windsurf. It is quite rare as adults we take on the challenge of a mastering a new skill from scratch. When was the [...]

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The Art in Sport

Instability Training for the Core Muscles

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:00:40 +0000

Exercises using swiss balls and other gym training tools like dura discs and wobble boards are frequently prescribed to help train the core muscles. This instability training is often viewed as a great way to enhance core strength. However, a recent review of the research by Behm et al. 2010 (Appl. Physiol. Metab. Nutr. 35(1): [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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