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Sports coaching is the discipline of developing individual or team sports performance through physical, technical, tactical and mental factors.

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Articles on all aspects of sports performance across a range of sport, by professionals from around the world.

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The BBC have announced their shortlist of 10 sports stars of 2009 who will compete for the prestigious Sports Personality of the Year Award. Although not the spectacular year for British Sport 2008 was, there are still some great performances to choose from (it being about performance more than personality).

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Last night British boxer David Haye beat 7 foot Russian Nikolay Valuev to claim the WBA Heavyweight title, in a fight that was marketed as "David versus Goliath". The fight itself was fascinating, Haye's victory the result of a perfectly executed fight plan - though deliberately tweaked to accommodate a broken hand sustained early in the fight (from the Russian's big hard head!

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It has been a long time since I have not written anything on this blog. It sounds like the perfect moment to resurrect my mental skills experiment: in June the 8th I had an accident at the gym and suffered total anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, meniscus amputation, cartilage damage and a minor injury to the tibia.

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An important workshop titled Peak Performance, Neurofeedback and Biofeedback: new frontiers of empowerment from, and in, sport. The initiative is promoted by the company Mind Room International in partnership with a combination of football players and Confindustria Vicenza.

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Sport science is a field of work and study concerned with applying scientific principles and techniques to improve sporting performance.Traditionally sport science has included physiology, psychology, and biomechanics but can include any scientific application to sport and the field has developed into areas such as technology and engineering, nutrition and diet, strength and conditioning, and performance analysis.

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iStadia is the global meeting place for sport and exercise professionals. Build your personal brand using social media and develop your professional network.

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Social media marketing takes place when professionals, practitioners, researchers, organisations take a human approach to marketing by participating in conversations with their audiences - those who you want to connect with, be it other professionals, funding providers, potential clients/customers or research groups.

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Recently Lewis Howes (of www.SportsNetworker.com) and Jason F Peck (www.jasonfpeck.com), two of the leading lights in sport and social media met at Blogworld and, in true style, made a video! In it, Jason shares his story about getting into sports social media, about how this had led to him branching out on his own, and his thoughts on where the 'industry' is going.

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On Saturday the 30th May, the British and Irish Lions Kicked off their 2009 tour of South Africa. The British and Irish Lions are a special touring party made up from the four 'Home' nations - England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales; South Africa are a notoriously hard playing nation and the current World Champions.

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When you are really into your golf, you care about what happens to the ball, and that ball doesn't always do what you want. It's all too easy to get angry but nobody else wants to see that and it's not good for you either. With hypnosis downloads you can retrain your mind to stop getting angry on the golf course.

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ndividuals’ motivations can directly influence their performance; this is especially true in the sporting world. Reversal Theory’s “Eight Motivational States” provide the foundation for the AMSP, which; “provides a great way to help athletes and coaches understand themselves and use that knowledge to achieve their best performance under pressure.” – Phil Moore, Sports Psychologist.

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In recent times, the sporting press have reported on an increasing number of positive applications of hypnosis in sports settings, with the usual sceptism now being replaced with interest...

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Despite their name complexes are an easy way to get fitter and stronger in a hurry. Increasing strength, work capacity and reducing body fat are often thought to be time consuming or difficult to manage. Complexes allow all three to be done at the same time.

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Tagging and the Analyzer are Dartfish Tools of Choice for Head Women's Soccer Coach Neil Sedgwick at the University of Montana at Missoula.

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Per Aagaard of the Danish Institute of Sports Sciences and Clinical Biomechanics recently lectured at the High Performance Centre in Birmingham. The most interesting part of day involved his findings showing that tendon loading via targeted resistance training may enhance injury resilience.

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When swimmers first started wearing body suits I wasn't swimming, and I found them curious. The technology was pretty marginal, but before long they became de rigeur at all of the top swim meets. Now, it is hard to find anyone, even at masters swim meets, wearing anything else. It's time to go back to good old-fashioned trunks.

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Following their most successful seasons to date in 2007 and 2008, Durham County Cricket Club is determined to continue to progress in 2009. To illustrat

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I know it sounds amazing but professional athletes having spinal surgery is a common occurrence even in this day and age of advanced Pilates protocols, gym ball work outs, heated yoga sessions and Bosu ball functional ballistic movement programmes. Some players just refuse to put the effort in and end up in the hands of the surgeon.

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