Year: 2014

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 …

HRV heart rate variability measurements seem to have become the big thing in training for fitness or performance right now. It can be used as a great tool, no doubts. It will give us information …

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 presses …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …