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Do you recognize this one? : “Coach, I don’t understand….. everything is better than last year and still I do not perform better than last year ….”. If this sounds familiar to you I might …
Do you recognize this one? : “Coach, I don’t understand….. everything is better than last year and still I do not perform better than last year ….”. If this sounds familiar to you I might …
After some busy months, more busy than I prefer, it is finally time again to put some ideas on paper, in this case a blog post. Let me start with something more personal: this week …
In my travelling and daily activities I often run into ideas, rules, measures that are developed only to decrease anxiety or fear. Look around, read the Internet or newspaper, or watch TV: the world seems …
In between busy consulting with clients, testing, lecturing and presenting, I finally found some time to write. Today was interesting: we went to our National Sports Center Papendal, at the research and development department (Innosport) …
The athlete’s body is a black box, thousands of chemical, electrical and mechanical processes are going on and we don’t have a clue what we are doing here. Yes, if you train, something changes, the …
This week the world of sports was shocked by the news: soccer superstar Lionel Messi pulled a hamstring and will not be playing for the time being. The suggested cause of his injuries however raised …
Spend all week lecturing on different subjects on different levels and for different sports. And it barely matters what the subject is, the same question comes up all the time: is it better to start …
This week I had an interesting talk with a good friend of mine, Charles van Commenee, former Technical Director of UK Athletics. Since we are both giving lots of presentations and lectures for coaches, we …
In the post before you have been reading about the value of monitoring the strength training process by simply making a force/velocity-graph and the force/power-graph. For that has been a great step forwards in make …
Yes, maybe I have been boring you with too much non-technical information about training and coaching. Of course, most coaches want to know the secret recipe, the golden exercise, the magic tool, that changes his/her …