Sport and Exercise

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.

Read the latest blogs and articles from sport psychology professionals who are members of iStadia's global sport & exercise community.

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You have your eye on that star athlete whom you would really like to see wearing your team's uniform next year. You have written letters, made a couple of calls, but are looking for that extra edge to put your school on top as their number one choice.

Why is it that an overweight, undertrained 35 year old can d the times he did as a 17 year old swimmer? And no, the answer isn't "the suit"...

Have you seen Stade Francais new 'Warhol' inspired rugby kit for the Heineken cup? What is the psychology of team kits?

Implementing a sport programme in a post-disaster area is more than just bringing a ball and telling people to kick it around. In fact, if done improperly, these efforts can actually cause more harm than good by further dividing an already split community. This is why it is important to learn proper strategies.

iStadia member Sam Kotadia, through his company Mindsport Ltd, has just released a range of sport psychology 'self-help' cards for athletes and students that will help you to keep mental strategies to hand at all times. We are delighted to be able to offer these through the iStadia Marketplace.

So much in sport revolves around key moments and turning points during competitions. Losing focus and motivation at critical times always damages performance.

Sporting contests at all levels are often won and lost by the smallest of margins, and confidence can make all the difference to performance.

What would you do if your were walking down the street and someone collapsed and stopped breathing? This article shares basics of life support "CPR", this is sometimes called basic life support.

You can be very vulnerable when approaching your parked vehicle or waiting in your stopped vehicle. Here are 10 basic rules of car self-defense everyone should know.

How do youth footballers define success and failure, what they perceive to be the consequences of success and failure? What are the types and levels of fears of failure, and how does their fear of failure affects the? What contributes towards their fear of failure and how they cope with these fears? This article attempts to answer these questions

At this writing, every respectable sports team uniform manufacturer in the free world has some variation to promote in the "performance" category. If I never hear the word "anti-microbial" again, I will die a happy man, but I don't suspect that'll happen.

Kobe Bryant said that the 1st time he saw his USA Men's Basketball uniform he "laid it down across my bed" and just looked at it, "humbled". "I had goosebumps", Kobe continued. Arguably the best basketball player of our generation...was emotionally affected by a simple (albeit nice) basketball uniform. What up with that?

This article discusses how to create psychological momentum in team sports like football.

This week has seen two football managers from the English Premier League (West Ham and Newcastle United, respectively) quit their posts. In both cases the issue appears to be their loss of control over transfers, and perhaps other aspects of the club management.Does this signal the end of the British football manager?

Inspired by watching the GB canoe slalom team struggle in Beijing, Jonathan Males asks whether it is best to focus on the outcome goals, or to take care of the process required to win.