A visit to Utopia.
Last week I visited the FIBO, the largest Fitness exhibition in the World, in Cologne again, after I think 12-14 years. There is definitely still business in the fitness industry, more brands of treadmills, leg …
Author: Henk Kraaijenhof
Big data? Be critical ….
This week I was invited to take part in a roundtable discussion about the role of “Big data” in sports, since big data seems to have become a hype in sports. (But only for people …
Training as resource management: 7 very basic questions in training.
Talking about training is talking about resources. Most of the time we think about increasing the athlete’s resources, mental as well as physical. So we tend to consider the many different physiological, psychological and functional …
Mental toughness: how to improve it. General basics.
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, …
Welcome to the E-athlete. A short introduction.
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 …
Mental toughness …. but in what?
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 …
Will the Olympics still be there in 2028 or is it time for the Neolympics?
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 …
Testing new equipment
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 …
Don’t slice too much (continued)
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 …
Fatigue
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, …