Fitness & Training
Introduction
The Australian Sports Commission or the Australian Institute of Sport does not provide personal fitness or training programs. For an individually tailored program contact a coach or fitness centre in your area. For contact details of sporting organisations that may be able to direct you to the closest coach within Australia, try our directories page . Before undertaking any training or fitness program you should first check with your physician, and also verify with a professional the appropriateness of the program for you.
Links
General fitness and training information
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Sports Coach provides information and articles on many fitness, training and sport science topics.
- Exercise and Physical Fitness - MedlinePlus provides information to help answer exercise and fitness questions.
- Fitness fundamentals has been developed by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (US),and includes an informative paper designed to answer most of the questions asked about fitness.
- StrengthCoach.com is an interesting site with feature articles and research summaries on fitness and strength training.
- GO2Altitude has a publication section which includes articles on altitude training from various magazines.
- Running on thin air - Dr Chris Gore of AIS Physiology outlines the science behind altitude training.
- Rob's home of fitness testing includes details of fitness tests including the multistage fitness test.
- Sports Fitness - MedlinePlus provides information to help answer sports fitness questions.
- Fitness Training Wikipedia
- Beep Test / 20m Shuttle Run Test / Multi-stage Fitness Test. This test is currently sold by Australian Sports Commission Publications.
Sport specific training information
To locate specific sports training programs search Google - enter - sport, training program i.e. swimming training program
Organisations
- Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
- Australian Council for Health, Physical Education & Recreation
- Australian Fitness Network
- Australian Strength and Conditioning Association Inc
- Fitness Australia
- National Athletic Trainers' Association (USA)
- National Strength and Conditioning Association (USA)
