Yes, maybe I have been boring you with too much non-technical information about training and coaching. Of course, most coaches want to know the secret recipe, the golden exercise, the magic tool, that changes his/her …
After working with many world-class athletes from all over the world, and travelling quite a bit , I decided took take it easy in my old days, planning to take up gardening, solving Sudoku’s, playing …
It was early this morning when my mobile phone rang. The lady at the other side of the line was calling on behalf of a national public radiostation. And wanted to know my opinion about …
A few days ago I received a challenging question from a good friend of mine, personal trainer and coach, Jurjen Groen, and the question was: “what is do you consider to be “natural movement” ?”. …
For the longest time we have been educated with the idea that food consists of substances that service the purpose of supply of structural building blocks (e.g. proteins), fuels (e.g. fats and carbohydrates), or protective …
KAATSU is the Japanese name for an already known principle, that however has escaped the attention of most people. Other names for KAATSU are: – blood flow restricted exercise – ischaemic training – occlusion training …
Time And yes, I have been taking my time the last 4 weeks, working with Chinese speed skaters, coaching a management team of a major international company in Holland, watching the best track meet in …
Having been very busy last three weeks, I finally found some time to work on my blog again, many new ideas popped up, but travelling and working I did not yet find to time to …
Most of the contributions to the science of training come from the former East-bloc countries, mainly from the Former Soviet-Union. Names like Matvejev, Werchoshanski, Viru and Bondartshuk have become household names in the literature about …
For many decades scientists have been studying the heart and the muscle as being the dominant organs in human performance, but I never considered this to be the whole truth, I always thought the brain …