Participants
38 collegiate athletes who participated in regular team sports (football, futsal, rugby union, rugby league, ice hockey, American football, basketball, netball). All participants reported competing across a range of competitive levels from university (collegiate) to semi-professional level sports participation. Participants playing season varied between either pre- or in-season. All participants were required to have a history of resistance-based training, including the NHE, regularly (minimum of once/week) applied within the previous 6 months. All participants reported having between 1–2 years of sprint or running based technical coaching which had been delivered during sport-based training. All participants were required to be free from injury and not had a previous HSI in the past 6 months. Participants were randomly allocated to the three training groups using a random number generator; Nordic 