As mentioned in an earlier post about this subject: there is no easy way, just like there is no easy way or shortcut in improving physical toughness or conditioning. There is no pill, no shortcut, …
Apart from man being a very complex chemical organism, man is also an electrical organism (let’s not discuss about what comes first, chemistry of electricity, since chemistry is electromagnetism as well). We tend to forget …
This week, I got a question posed by a good colleague of mine (thanks Matt), and I thought maybe the answer might be of interest to more people. Mental toughness is an expression often used …
This rhetorical question I asked this week in a column for a Dutch sports website, and the year 2028 was chosen because not too long ago Holland wanted to be a candidate for the 2028 …
Yes, it has been a while, I see from my last post here. I have been busy travelling, lecturing, writing my books and testing new equipment that I already used in 2008, but at that …
The day after I wrote my blogpost, this clear example was written in a column of Wilfried de Jong, the producer of the best sports documentaries ever made in Holland and writer of very good …
In sports for the longest time we studied the peripheral components of fatigue, from pure muscular fatigue to metabolic factors involved in fatigue. Although we long understood that the brain has a role in fatigue, …
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 …