Tag: Training Programme
50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
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Train Easy. Train Hard.
Regular physical exercise makes your body stronger, especially when challenged with various strength and endurance tasks and, more importantly, when enough time is given...
The importance of ‘strength’ in strength and conditioning for the weekend...
Why strength train? The most touted benefits of exercise are cardio respiratory in nature which are especially responsive to ‘conditioning’ (think endurance and interval...
7 Steps to Creating a Training Programme That Works
We all want to get better at something. After all, self-improvement helps us perform better in the sports that we love. Learning new skills...
Deliberate practise: vital to your success as an athlete
Even now I remember the intense pain that shot through my left foot as I whacked my toe hard into the top of the...
Cross training: the benefits revealed
Cross training refers to the process of using different sports, or exercise mediums, in order to train for one specific task, position or sport.
Historically...
Summer training: How to stay on track & keep improving
Now that school’s out and the summer holidays are here it can be easy to get distracted from working towards your sporting goals. Therefore,...
Kinetics Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Hints: Your Young Athlete
This month’s Kinetics Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Hints coincides with the opening of the new Sir Owen G. Glenn National Aquatic Centre, a fantastic new...
Reduce injuries by focusing on what matters most
Old school thinking says that, to make the top, athletes must do two things: work hard and train more than everyone else.
One of those...
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5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
Head Girl leading the way
Charlie Toumadj is a busy person. On top of surf lifesaving, netball, A-Level classes at school, Duke of Edinburgh and working at AUT Millennium,...
“Doctor of Surfing” sets up New Zealand’s first board sports programme...
“Just some guy doing weird stuff with surfing.”
Dr Olly Farley is used to having to justify his career choice. Combining his passion for surfing...
The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
