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The 2013 Rugby League World Cup: How can England win?
The opening match of the Rugby league World Cup perfectly demonstrated the highly competitive nature of the sport, and there was certainly no love lost between Australia and England. England are looking to capitalise on being the host nation to help them win the World Cup for the first time...
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Mental Health

Overtraining - how to prevent it?
We usually see the bright side of top level sports. Our favorites lifting the trophy or being decorated with an Olympic medal. We cheer for them - and do not...
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Physiology

Caffeine consumption and perceptual response in sport
Caffeine is commonly used as an ergogenic aid by many athletes due to the almost unequivocal support in the literature on the beneficial impacts of ingesting caffeine on submaximal performance. ...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Self awareness
High performance athletes spend a crucial amount of time into skill development, physical conditioning, and nutrition. However at the high performance stage there is a thin line between winning and...
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Leadership

Leadership: are you a Shepherd or a Sheep?
As with many theories in psychology, those on leadership have taken a few twists and turns before they arrived at their current position. Early psychologists tended to favour trait theories...
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Injuries

Maintaining motivation throughout injury
Unfortunately in competitive sporting environments, injuries are likely to occur. As a basketball player, despite strength and conditioning training, knee and ankle injuries are frequent occurrences which almost cannot be...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Emotions in sport: Applied emotion regulation intervention
This article aims to give an insight into the deliberate use of emotions within sport performance through an applied perspective. The course of the article will move firstly through the...
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Parenting Tips

Parenting in sport
The role of parents in youth sport has recently been thrown into the media limelight following Gary Lineker’s article for the Newstatesman (link to the article available below). He apportions...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Dealing with emotions: A practitioners guide
Practitioners within sport are required to deal with a range of emotions. These emotions can relate to both positive and negative experiences. Good practitioners will be able to notice emotions...
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Leadership

Coach power in sport
Within our society, youth sport participation is continually growing and recent figures have shown that 90% of American children participate in at least one sport before they leave high school...
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