The amount, composition and timing of food intake can profoundly affect sports performance. Good nutritional practice will help athletes train hard, recover quickly and adapt more effectively with less risk of illness and injury. Athletes should adopt specific nutritional strategies before and during competition to help maximise their performance. Athletes will benefit from the guidance of a qu...

Only a few times in my adult life can I remember feeling the unbounded exuberant energy of childhood and experiencing it continuously for days at a time – a feeling of my body being light and movement effortless, drawing energy from a seemingly bottomless well. One of those times was when I was trekking in the Himalayas, descending from an altitude of 5000 metres. Walking up had been a fairly g...

The training regimens of modern-day athletes have evolved from the sole emphasis on a single fitness component (e.g., endurance athlete or resistance/strength athlete) to an integrative, multimode approach encompassing all four of the major fitness components: resistance (R), interval sprints (I), stretching (S), and endurance (E) training. Athletes rarely, if ever, focus their training on only...

The aim of the study is to assess the effects of 6-weeks yogasanas training on agility and muscular strength in sportsmen. A group thirty randomly selected male players of department of physical education, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab, India) aged 18 – 24 years, volunteered to participate in the study. They were randomly assigned into two groups: Y (experimental N=15) and C (cont...

Performing under high pressure is an emotional experience. Hence, the use of emotion regulation strategies may prove to be highly effective in preventing choking under pressure. Using a golf putting task, we investigated the role of arousal on declined sport performance under pressure (pilot study) and the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies in alleviating choking under pressure (mai...

The aim of this study was to identify the importance assigned by futsal coaches with different education levels to the sports performance factors (technical, tactical, physical and psychological) and to the training contents. The sample was divided into three groups (novice: n=35, intermediate: n=42; and elite coaches: n=15) depending on the degree of specific education, coaching experience and...

Implications for sports performance and athletic injury occurrence have been forcefully insinuated by proponents of a biorhythm theory based on date of birth. The theory postulates that variations in human abilities are governed by three consistently recurring cycles of 23, 28 and 33 day lengths. This study assessed the validity of biorhythms by analysing best performances in 610 top ranked Eur...

With the recent advances in genome-wide mapping studies and the emerging findings on the relation between athletes’ training histories and their performance, this should be a time for integrating these two bodies of knowledge for a more complete understanding of the complex development of elite performance. In their recent article, Tucker and Collins criticised a popularised but simplistic view...

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Muscular strength and anaerobic power could be assessed by single and multiple vertical jump testing procedures. Anaerobic capacity measured by vertical jump testing is highly correlative with athletic performance, as compared to other anaerobic testing procedures. The most frequently used protocol with contact mat or force platform consists of single jump (i.e., squat jump, drop jump, counterm...