Guides
Short articles for practice: what works, what to watch and which tool helps — each with references.
Also as a feed: guides.xml
All guides as a booklet: Training guides (PDF, 21 articles) — to read, print and pass on in your club or school.
How much activity? The WHO guidelines
Planning · 9 November 2026
What the World Health Organization recommends for children, adults and older people and how to turn it into a week.
Video analysis: counting reliably
Measuring · 9 November 2026
How to define events in a video so that two people count the same thing, and what to observe when filming other people.
Comparing offers by your own motives
Planning · 9 November 2026
Why people do sport for different reasons, how this helps when choosing a club, gym or course and what makes a fair ranking.
Club training: managing load by group
Clubs · 9 November 2026
How club coaches manage the load of whole groups, use attendance and take differences in development into account.
Daily physical activity in schools
Children · 9 November 2026
How schools implement Austria's daily physical activity programme with short, well-prepared sessions and where clubs can help.
Training balance to prevent falls
Session design · 9 November 2026
Why balance and strength exercises reduce falls in older people and what an effective programme looks like.
Playful activity outdoors
Games and tactics · 9 November 2026
Why challenges, spots and collections motivate people to move, how long the effect lasts and how to keep it going.
Finding a sports hall, pitch or pool
Clubs · 9 November 2026
Which hall sizes exist, which standards apply and how open map data helps when searching for sports facilities.
Rehearsing plays: from the board to the pitch
Games and tactics · 9 November 2026
Four stages from the drawn play to using it in a match — with timing, passive and active defence and a clear rule for success.
Children learn to swim: water confidence first
Children · 9 November 2026
Why breathing, diving and gliding come before the swimming stroke and which rules apply to supervision and group size.
Periodisation without a rigid scheme
Planning · 9 November 2026
What periodisation can achieve, what research says about it and how a season plan with planned-versus-actual comparison stays flexible.
Climbing: partner check before every climb
Games and tactics · 9 November 2026
Why most accidents in climbing gyms happen while belaying and lowering and how the partner check prevents them.
Strength training for young people
Children · 9 November 2026
Why supervised strength training is safe and useful for young people and what a good start with body weight looks like.
Health questions before starting to train
Planning · 9 November 2026
When a medical check before starting training makes sense and which warning signs end a session immediately.
Radio at events without mobile coverage
Clubs · 9 November 2026
How timing and checkpoint reports work in the terrain without a mobile network and which rules apply to licence-free radio bands.
Remote competition: one task, many places
Clubs · 9 November 2026
How clubs and schools announce a competition without travel, score it fairly and record only the data that is needed.
Running field tests properly
Measuring · 9 November 2026
Same conditions, two trials, honest measurement error: how jump, sprint and endurance tests become meaningful in a club.
Eating and drinking around training
Session design · 9 November 2026
What helps before, during and after training — based on the sports medicine position statement, without weight goals or calorie counting.
Reading success rates correctly
Measuring · 9 November 2026
Why five successful attempts out of ten say little, how the uncertainty range helps and how many attempts you need.
Estimating training load with session RPE
Planning · 9 November 2026
How the load of a session follows from duration and effort, what the weekly value is good for and where its limits lie.
A warm-up that works
Session design · 9 November 2026
Warming up by the RAMP principle: raise, activate, mobilise, potentiate — and why a fixed programme can help prevent injuries.