Diet – don’t buy it! Part 1
Ever since I started as a coach I have asked myself: how important is diet (or nutrition and supplementation) for the performance of the athlete. After 40 years of hard work I just don’t get …
Ever since I started as a coach I have asked myself: how important is diet (or nutrition and supplementation) for the performance of the athlete. After 40 years of hard work I just don’t get …
This weekend there was an article in the newspaper about the different brands of smart watches, i.e. the combination of watch, heart rate monitor, stride counter and GPS systems. The movement that started this idea …
The ANS is an relatively important component of our nervous systems and very important for all aspects of performance. First of all it branches out to almost all organ systems in our body, controlling many …
Pff, yes, the timing wasn’t great and the preparation time was short, but I think we pulled of a great seminar. We wanted to keep it small 20-25 persons, but in the end almost 60 …
The city of Amsterdam is like Venice famous for it’s canals, but like most of the time one barely visits the treasures in one’s own hometown, while millions of foreign tourist do. Last week I …
It’s a small planet after all. On Facebook one “meets” people, one has never heard of before, leave alone, met before. In this way I “met” Craig Liebenson from the US and never realized that …
Some time ago I gave a presentation about the differences in coaching male or female athletes and in that presentation I used the book of Helmut Nyborg: “Hormones, Sex and Society”. Now somebody pointed out, …
If you are a hypochondriac or suffer from compulsive hand washing or a cleaning disorder, stop reading now! You are warned! Since a few years popular advertisements tried to convince us to take probiotics as …
And our world is full of them, here is a misunderstanding about a popular issue in sprints training and a questions that I have heard since I started working with this: “As far as resisted …
A lot has been published in recent years about the training of athletes. Most of it came from the field of exercise physiology and many coaches accepted this information rather uncritically. Short-term experiments with small …