Small sided games (SSGs) are used in soccer, basketball, rugby, and cricket to develop conditioning, repeated sprint ability, technical skills, and tactical abilities. Basically these involve games with a smaller number of...
Mendiguchia et al, in the latest issue of the International Journal of Sports Medicine, conducted a study examining sprinting performance at the point that rehabbing players were allowed to return to sport...
Nilstad et al in the latest issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine have an article that examines 1731 elite Norwegian female soccer players and follows them for the 2009 season....
As strength and conditioning coaches, we often make the claim that strength is important for athletes. Sometimes this is to overcome external objects (like another player or a shot put), sometimes this...