Year: 2015

I have a bookmarker showing this great statement of the 16th century Dutch philosopher and writer Erasmus: “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food …

Maybe I am a pessimist, but I strongly get the impression that track and field is in big trouble. “ The mother of all sports” is on the way out. I have spent 30 years …

Last weekend I had the opportunity to lecture at the Perform Better Functional Training Seminar in Munich, Germany. The organization was great; German sense of perfection combined the open-mindedness and eagerness to learn, in a …

One of the important principles of Methodology of Training 2.0 is individualization, commonly known personalization as in “personalized medicine” or “personalized nutrition”. It means that any intervention (medical treatment, nutrition or in our case training …

Let me take you to a lesser known part of my work. I never fulfilled my duty in the Army, for the simple reason that I tore my Achilles tendon as an athlete. No one …

Let me bore you a little bit with my holidays, before I go back to work again. Some people think I never take a holiday, some people think my whole life is a holiday. The …

It has been some time since my last post, this is not due to lack of information, more to the lack of time. I have been lecturing a lot, preparing the lectures, and have also …

Back in 2002 I was invited to give a presentation for the national Olympic coaches at our Olympic Coaches Platform. The title: Periodization: a fossil from the 21 century?     It was a critical …

In relation to my last blogpost: I received a lot of requests for hamstring exercises. Well, here is the bad news: it will take such a long time for me to describe these exercises and …

This is an article I recently wrote answering questions about hamstrings. For what it is worth: a story I like to share with you. As a coach in track and field, mainly in the sprints …