In an earlier post, I linked to an article on recovery-based training. Here is a more accessible version from the same swimming and triathlon coach and leading authority Wayne Goldsmith. At coaches’ infoservice, golfers will even find out how core stability training will get them driving further. Goldsmith highlights some of the complex variables (see [...]

Seventeen-year old South Korean Park Tae-Hwan’s upset win on Sunday at the world swimming championships in Melbourne says a lot about the broad philosophic approach of his Australian coach both towards training for elite athletes and encouraging children in sports. In the 400m freestyle, Park also beat his hero, Grant Hackett, the Australian who has [...]

More from knackered downunder One explanation for American and Australian sporting achievement is their preparedness to look at new methods and throw away the old. It’s all about the search for the next revolution. Milt Nelms – an American performance enhancer and with whom former champion Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe trained last year – says [...]

Body shape has always played a key role in sporting success. In this context, Libby Lenton — the Australian 100m swimming champion — has spent the last three months trying to develop (as the newspaper The Australian put it) “a bigger bum”. The newspaper says that following Australia’s national trials in December, the 22-year-old did [...]

More from knackered downunder… Australian long- and middle-distance champion Craig Mottram‘s slogan is simple: “keep with the program”. No matter who you are, get a plan for any race and — just as importantly — be prepared to finesse and change it, if conditions deviate from your assumptions. The 26-year-old Mottram took first place in [...]