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 …
The months of March, April and May are always busy times for seminars, congresses, workshops etc. Opportunities to teach and learn, to exchange information and to meet new people, working in one’s field. This year …
With my suitcase in my hand, on my way to Richmond, to speak at what is going to be a great seminar, the CVASPS 2014 organized by my friend Jay de Mayo and after that …