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Sports coaches from India have teamed up again with experts at the University of Birmingham to learn how latest research and training techniques can help to boost athletes' performance. The 22-strong party spent two weeks following a strength and conditioning programme put together by experts from the School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences and University Birmingham Sport. Their visit follows an agreement signed in November by the University of Birmingham and the Sports Authority of India (SAI) to work together and help improve the sporting performance of India's athletes. Coaches specialising in sports including handball, canoeing and athletics studied a range of areas such as injury prevention, upperand lower-body strength, agility and plyometrics - exercises in which muscles exert maximum force in short intervals of time, with the goal of increasing power. Handball coach Varinder Verma said: "We've been amazed by the management, execution and training we received from University of Birmingham experts during this programme. We lack this knowledge in India and have learnt so much that we will be able to use with our athletes." Canoeing/kayaking coach Bilquish Mir said: "This has been the best experience of our life and we're very grateful to the experts at Birmingham for welcoming us and teaching us so much. We've been really inspired and will be able to replicate these methods back home.