Self-confidence is defined as "the belief of certainty individuals possess at one particular moment about their ability to be successful in sport". Within early research a consistent finding was that successful elite athletes reported greater self confidence than less successful elite athletes but what is...
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With it being the height of the summer and many of us taking our summer holidays to relax in the sun to perhaps get away from the stresses of work or spend time with the family, many of us will make the choice of flying...
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Margins between success and failure in sport can be the equivalent of centimetres, millimetres or thousandths of seconds. With the financial rewards involved, staggering amounts of money hinge on the decisions, the concentration and the performance of elite athletes. This is why many top athletes...
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Due to the “Type A” nature of city workers they are driven to succeed, so naturally why wouldn’t this be true outside of the office space? Gone are the days of a weekend hobby, a nice gentle run along the river or a quick game...
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Ioanna Karelia joined the world of sports at an age as young as 7. Her very first sport was that of high jumping. A year later she started training concurrently in volleyball and was also a keen basketball player in her free time. After competing in...
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This is the last part of our concurrent training article (Part 1, Part 2) and today we are discussing which components of endurance training are more detrimental to strength training gains and which gains are affected more. The main resistance training gains are hypertrophy, strength and...
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Last week we discussed what concurrent training is (Part 1) and whether it interferes with strength training gains. This week we will expand on the latter and investigate why concurrent training might be interfering with resistance training outcomes. There are several reasons for this. The most...
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Are you an athlete doing a sport that requires muscular size, strength, power but also endurance? A good example of such an athlete can be found in the paper of Wilson et al (2012) published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and is...
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Are you thinking about improving your sports performance? I’m sure the first thing that has come to mind is to join a commercial gym. Before making any quick decisions, please I urge you to first have a look at these 5 reasons why joining a commercial...
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Many mistakenly believe that strength and conditioning training is for elite athletes only. It is exactly because it is not that we started Performance Ground. One of our core values is accessibility. Science driven performance coaching has been accessible to elite athletes only. We make...
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