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Sport & Exercise Science

Taper your programme and improve performance for competition
Fitness & Health, Strength & Conditioning

Strength exercises for golf: Increase drive distance and improve your game
Sport & Exercise Science

Sport-specific high-intensity fitness tests
Fitness & Health

What is PNF stretching and how should you use it?

Webinars

Performance Support – Is it Science? Free Webinar

Producing world-class performance requires numerous factors to align at a given point in time. Performance support teams for athletes and…
Sport & Exercise Science, Webinars

Advice, exercises and treatments for low back pain – Free webinar

Low back pain is a common problem. Join us for this free webinar with author and chartered physiotherapist Jane Johnson and understand more about the causes and treatments of low back pain.
Webinars

Moving beyond the athlete: A call to take action on the dopogenic environment – Free webinar

A dopogenic environment and doping in sport is ubiquitous and recent evidence of systematic doping regimes call into question the legitimacy of the current anti-doping system. This system seemingly prioritises detection-deterrence over prevention and a stronger case needs to be made for working upstream to prevent the root causes of the doping behaviour.
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Sleep and Performance: Time to wake up! Free Webinar

Sleep and performance have become a prominent area of interest. How much should an athlete sleep? Is there a model to schedule training and travel to optimise sleep and performance? Do wearables work? All this and much more was answered by sleep and performance expert Dr Ian C Dunican in this webinar.
Fitness & Health, Webinars

Sedentary behaviour: Where do we stand? Free webinar

This webinar will provide an overview and update of the epidemiological, experimental and intervention research on the topic of sedentary behaviour.
Sport & Exercise Science, Webinars

Psychosocial considerations in sports injuries risk and prevention – Free Webinar

This webinar provides an overview of psychological characteristics that are commonly identified as risk factors in sports injuries and some…
Fitness & Health, Sport & Exercise Science, Webinars

Should we re-frame how we think about physical activity and sedentary behaviour measurement?

The measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour is fundamental to health-related research policy and practice. However, there are well-known…
Sport & Exercise Science, Webinars

Human Kinetics and BASES Webinars – Everything you need to know

This page has been designed to keep everyone up to date with the latest news regarding Human Kinetics and BASES…

Taper your programme and improve performance for competition

Taper or tapering has many definitions but if you get it right and it could be the difference between winning and losing. Tapering is common for athletes competing in a one-off event such as a marathon however it is also widely used in other sports.

Fitness & Health, Strength & Conditioning

Strength exercises for golf: Increase drive distance and improve your game

Strength training isn’t normally associated with golf. But, a lot of professionals including Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth, now regularly use strength exercises as part of their training programmes. Find out how to improve your game with these strength exercises for golf.

Webinars

Performance Support – Is it Science? Free Webinar

Producing world-class performance requires numerous factors to align at a given point in time. Performance support teams for athletes and…

Sport & Exercise Science

Sport-specific high-intensity fitness tests

This post analyses some sport-specific high-intensity fitness tests. Many sports are, for the most part, undertaken in an intermittent high-intensity fashion. In preparing for intermittent sports, various forms of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) are often used to improve cardiorespiratory and metabolic function as well as physical and sports performance.

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Physiotherapist and author of Postural Correction Jane Johnson has created a short video description of prevention and treatment of shoulder impingement.

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Sports Medicine

Prevention and treatment of shoulder impingement
Jane Johnson addresses the anterior tilt in the pelvis describing effective and innovative ways to correct it, from both a therapist and client perspective.

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Fitness & Health, Sport & Exercise Science

How to fix an anterior tilt in the pelvis
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Video

How to make a healthy smoothie for active children
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Fitness & Health, Sport & Exercise Science, Sports Medicine

Seattle Seahawks adopt safer rugby tackling techniques
After almost two years of planning, Yorkshire is about to welcome the world’s third largest sporting event to the “broad acres”.

In less than two week’s time the Grand Départ of the Tour de France starts from Leeds on Saturday 5th July and enthusiasts and spectators from around the world are set to descend on Yorkshire to see the world’s greatest cycle race set off on the first of two stages that will take in some of the county’s finest scenery and some of its most demanding terrain.

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Fitness & Health, Physical & Health Education, Sport & Exercise Science

The Grand Départ is almost here
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Books, Physical & Health Education, Video

Hip hop to health
A recent Channel 5, UK TV documentary profiled Liam Hoekstra, a toddler in Michigan whose parents had noted his unusual gifts of coordination and strength and therefore sought expert opinion on the child’s condition.

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Physical & Health Education

World’s Strongest Toddler