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Are professional networking sites a waste of time for sport & exercise professionals or a valuable professional development resource? It's up to you..

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

Hear what the professionals have to say on sports performance, sport business and management, fitness, professional development and other topics in sport and exercise through their blogs - or start your own blog and make yourself known.

This article looks at the pre-retirement services offered to their player members by the professional footballers' unions in England (PFA) and France (UNFP). The article includes a short history of the development of professional football (soccer) in England and France, and examine some of the issues of the contemporary game that affect the players and their life after football in the two countries.

Running a successful business in sports, fitness or leisure requires both specialist and business. This club is designed to provide sport and exercise professionals a forum for sharing those hard-earned and often costly experiences.

Read the latest blogs and articles from sports coaches and other professionals with an interest in coaching, covering a wide variety of topics from skills development to fitness, tactics to mental performance.

Here are a couple of articles from the APS website, with the new changes having implications for sport psychologists practicing in Australia.

With so many different ways of thinking and doing things, it's easy to wonder where you fit in mentally. What do you think? And how do you act in stressful matches? Even if you know how to play tennis physically, that's not enough to win. You need the complete package - physical and mental training. Tennis mental training isn't just for professionals - but can be used by any player, of any age, and at any level. Mental training for tennis has the potential to help you be more consistent, focused and confident in your game. But how do you develop a winning mindset? Achieving sporting results by improving UTR comes down to your mood. To excel at tennis, you cannot merely be physically talented - success requires desire, discipline, and of course, good technique. To read more about "Building Mental Toughness for Tennis" click on link.

An interesting post about the role of the statistical guru in sports performance, from 'Moneyball' Billy Beane in baseball, to Opta and Match Analysis in soccer, and the APBR in Basketball. To what extent is use of statistical analysis to improve selection and performance becoming the orthodoxy in professional sport?

Can rugby claim to be a sport that has relevance outside of it's core heartlands? As it develops, will it be able to maintain those things (such as respect for referees) that allow its supporters to claim a moral high ground over sports such as football?