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, …
Author: Henk Kraaijenhof
Don’t slice too much …..
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 …
Holiday season ……. finally…
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 …
Man, the anxious creature….
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 …
Smartcoach and Exentrix again
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) …
Biofeedback or opening the black box with EMG and EEG
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 …
Meat: the red scare?
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 …
Here we go again ……
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 …
Do coaches learn too?
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 …
Force/velocity-graph: some practical real life examples
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 …