The Mind Game — Self-Belief

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist and Conditioning Specialist In a diversion from the usual context of my articles around physical training, I wanted to venture into...

Deceleration—The Art of Slowing Down, Part 3

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist In this final article on deceleration we will look at a series of exercises that can be...

Deceleration – The Art of Slowing Down, Part 2

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Following on from last month, let’s consider some training concepts designed to help improve a player’s ability...

Deceleration—The Art of Slowing Down

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Take time to watch the top players in the world in action and observe how well they...

Strength Training and the Young Athlete—Part III

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Following on from last month’s issue let us look at a series of strength exercises that would...

Strength Training and the Young Athlete – Part II

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Continuing on from last issue’s theme of strength training and the young athlete, let’s consider common questions...

Strength Training for Juniors

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist A topic raising regular concerns and uncertainties for parents of young athletes is weight training. I am...

Getting to ONE

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist &Conditioning Specialist In this edition I wanted to share with the readers an article that was written for the Tournament...

Early Specialization in Sports: Risk or Reward?

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Whether a parent of a budding young athlete or a coach to a player you believe has...

Range of Motion (ROM) The Freedom to Move

By Damon Leedale-Brown, Sports Scientist & Conditioning Specialist Many players have come to the end of their competitive season in the US which typically begins...