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It was during the summer of 1994, when I visited one of my mentors, prof. Carmelo Bosco.Somehow we came to the observation that kids when awake often fall asleep when put in the backseat of …

I know a few respected colleagues that have mastered the ability to see things that I never could see. One of them could see if his high jumper is taking off at an angle of …

HRV or heart rate variability is a rather old tool to monitor the status of the athlete. HRV was already used in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the former USSR for this purpose. Nowadays unfortunately …

Whereas many books have been written about training, very few books have been written about recovery. As we know recovery is an essential part of training, it takes place in the period of time after …

Most of the time we look at health in a negative way, from the perspective of the lack of it; when we are sick, when we need a doctor and when the doctor diagnosis an …

After a very turbulent week I finally found time to update the blog. I believe that man is designed for moving on land, not on water, otherwise evolution would have  equipped us with fins (there …

I am used to raise the bar high in working with clients, athletes and coaches. That is necessary because nobody will learn to jump higher by lowering the bar! In 30 years of coaches education …

These days on  many websites and internet forums about fitness, training or muscles you will find  a lot of discussions, ideas and opinions regarding muscle fibres. Most of them however do not seem to have …

Already at the start of my career as a coach I was puzzled by the well-known phenomenon that some athletes always seemed to peak (that is: performing their year’s best performance) at major championships where …

There is no denying that if you plan, divide or schedule the training load over time, you are periodising. In the past mainly coming from the East Block several periodisation models have been proposed. We …