Soft ground – a risk for injury?

Sport Specific

If you live in Ireland, it’s no secret we have frequent rainfall. From Jan-Apr 2024 we seen the highest amount of rainfall (mm) year to date across the last 4 years. I’ve never seen as much disruption to field sports, namely GAA, Rugby and Soccer (as they are...

Does your warmup put athletes to sleep?

Sport Specific, Strength & Conditioning

I was at a local Basketball match recently and was surprised to see that the warm up had changed a lot and not for the better. I saw both teams do their “sport” warm up and this didn’t change much over the years. Players finding their touch and range with a ball,...

How to rehydrate for athletes

Nutrition, Performance Nutrition, Sport Specific

How to rehydrate for athletesTime to read: ~5mins As an athlete your goal, when finished a training session/match, is to prepare for the next training session or game. Your priorities should be as follows: Rehydrate Replenish Rebuild In this article, we focus on...

Why do Maximal aerobic speed training with GAA athletes?

Sport Specific

Read time ~ 6 mins Traditionally your conditioning may have been any of the following; road running long slow distances, sprints or on field shuttles with the same distance for everyone. GAA sports are intermittent in nature (slow, go, repeat) and place demands on...

Aerobic training for field based sport(s).

Sport Specific, Strength & Conditioning

The purpose of this article is to show Athletes/Coaches/Trainers/Teams that they can enhance their aerobic and even their anaerobic capacity by manipulating their energy systems accordingly, opposed to blindly performing “hard work” and hoping for results. Field based...

Strength training for MMA

Strength & Conditioning, Sport Specific

An introduction to Strength Training for MMA Strength training, has a range of benefits that I don’t need to discuss here. Strength training for MMA athletes has many benefits such as enhanced mobility,  injury prevention and performance enhancement. This is a...