Is this the best protein for young athletes?
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It’s Getting Hot in Here
If you do succumb to the heat, what should you do? Heat cramps, dizziness and fainting, heat exhaustion and heat stroke can all be caused by dehydration. If any of the above do occur, it is important that the activity is ceased and you move to q cool, quiet place. Increase your fluid intake and […]
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The Window of Opportunity – The Off Season
The winter sports season has well and truly passed. Now we have had that time to rest and recover, we need to start looking at offseason conditioning. The offseason is often undervalued and neglected which becomes concerning given its integral role in the athlete’s development. It is near impossible to effectively develop muscle and strength […]
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Training Load Management
What is Training Load? “Training load” is a broad term describing total volume, intensity and type of physical activity an athlete undertakes during both training and competition. External load: the physical work performed by an athlete. For example, distance run, amount of jumps performed, balls thrown. It van also be the duration, intensity or […]
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Sleep – Is it a Pain in the Neck?
Often when we think of pain we think of injury, as if the one is impossible without the other. It is easy for us to attempt to pinpoint a certain situation or event that caused us to be in pain such as lifting an object incorrectly or rolling an ankle playing basketball, however often pain […]
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Feeling Fit for Finals?
Winter is almost over which means we are fast approaching finals fever. After enduring a long season this can be the hardest time for an athlete to both manage and limit physical and mental fatigue. Our team at Coast Sport have put forward a few ideas to help you maintain peak performance. Nutrition What we […]
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What squat? Breaking down the types of squats
icon Did you know that among all the types of squats out there, some types might be better for you than other types? Everyone is different, meaning one type of squat may work better for you than others. Before we get started, it’s important to note that one type of squat is not better than […]
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Progressive overload
Are you not making progress with your resistance training? icon Training places stress on your body. But what happens when your body adapts to this load? Doing the same resistance training regime every time you head in to the gym will eventually lead to a plateau. As will not increasing the weights you lift over […]
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Fighting cancer with exercise
icon Research has now shown just how vital exercise is as an adjunct to cancer treatment and should be prescribed to all cancer patients under the guidance of an Exercise Physiologist. Not only does it help to manage the side effects associated with cancer treatment, but it is now known to improve patient outcomes. It […]
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The relationship between lower body strength and sprint performance
icon Sprint performance is a vital aspect to many team and individual sports. The ability to sprint over short distances of 10-40m is a performance predictor for many sports. Several research studies have found that not only is lower body strength correlated with sprint performance but increases in lower body strength have a positive transfer […]
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