Helping The Best To Get Better!

Last week my old friend Marco Pozzo was here to give a demonstration at one of the best physiotherapy clinics in Holland. He demonstrated one of my favorite toys in working with athletes, the Exentrix …

Because working in sports for 30 years leaves very little time for cultural sidesteps, two years ago, a colleague of mine and myself decided to treat ourselves with a Museum card which gives you free …

I bet you have filled out questionnaires like we all had to do at one time: a paper form (or a digital one) with questions, yes/no, multiple choice or open questions, to be answered by …

Strict individuality is probably the most promising component of the attempt to improve our training. Simply because almost everybody recognizes the need for an individual approach to training, while almost nobody really does that! Many …

Some promises to be fulfilled, some questions to be answered. One of the questions I got is related to the determination of muscle fibre composition by the simple Bosco jump test. The algorithms for this …

In an article for a Dutch sports website, I recently stated that I doubt that the Olympic Games will still be staged in 2048. A bold statement you think? I even think that competitive sports, …

Most of the time I receive replies after I publish my blog post, but this time the post is linked to a question I received some time ago. The question comes from my colleague Lorne …

I just came back from my lecturing “tour” to USA, Canada and Australia. It felt like living the life of a  rock star, but then without the sex, the drugs and the rock-and-roll. But at …

Sometimes a new athlete becomes part of our team , another time he have problems understanding why an athlete does not perform well or behaves strange. Profiling is meant to be able to understand and …

Slowly but surely we tend to believe that we need all kind of cool tools, expensive equipment or sophisticated toys in order to get and to process data of our athletes or teams;  data that …