What are the priorities for recovery nutrition?
Recovery is a challenge for athletes who are undertaking two or more sessions each day, training for prolonged periods, or competing in a program that involves multiple events. ...
ESSENDON are on the menu this afternoon but it's not only what the Swans consume today that will affect their performance this season. Former Glasgow Rangers and Scotland rugby team dietitian Lorraine Cullen has been...
THE AFL'S GPS data from the 2008 season has revealed a fourth consecutive increase in "playing intensity". Among results that delight AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson, who has introduced a raft of rule changes,...
WHILE joggers, weightlifters, recreational softball players and other fitness enthusiasts will surely be delighted to hear that exercise science now sees lactic acid as a force of good and not evil, the fact remains...
IT is football in the technological age. Each player takes the field with a small global positioning satellite unit strapped to his back. From the first bounce, every step, heartbeat and metre covered is...
The revelation a few seasons ago that Hawthorn players were downing pizzas after their matches came as a surprise to many. In an era where nothing is left to chance in elite sports performance, why...
I AM A huge fan of science. Sports science, that is. I regularly slot in a range of recovery techniques to my weekly Swans training program to keep the body ticking over. These days people...
Senior Australian Football League games are faster and more intense than they were eight years ago, a tracking study of the sport has found. However, as the senior level has increased in its demands on...
Carlton's Marc Murphy, the No.1 selection at last year's NAB AFL Draft, will write a regular column for afl.com.au throughout 2006. In his first instalment, he writes of how he has settled in at...
THE AFL produced a masterstroke of free advertising by linking a high-profile player such as Jarryd Hayne with its new western Sydney club, according to leading rugby league medico Dave Givney. Givney, who is the...