New and improved!!??
This week I read an article in a Dutch running journal about “new” sprinting techniques.(1) Holland might not have a lot of elite sprinters, but we are definitely good at developing “new” sprinting techniques. One …
Sport sciences, one more time
My last post about German sports sciences was just an example, probably representing for the status of sport sciences in more countries. I might look like an isolated coach thinking this way, but let me …
No more heroes…??
A little bit late, working every day to prepare my lecturing series at EXOS in Phoenix , USA, Oct-17-19) together with my dear colleague Dan Pfaff in a few weeks. But also having difficulties making …
A few of my heroes.
Often I walk along my bookshelves, picking out some old books and start reading them again. This time my eye caught one of my all-time favourites: “Life Extension – A Practical Scientific Approach” by Durk …
Holiday.
Holiday, the essential recovery from our daily routine, recharging the mental batteries, like wiping the blackboard at school and finding inspiration in other activities. Mine is over, no problem, I always saw life as one …
Timing: the ignored factor in training and performance: chronotyping and chronotraining.
We always assumed that in taking medication it would not matter when you take the pill: morning, afternoon or evening. But science proved us wrong: chronopharmacology is a relative new branch of science in which …
Grass skiing and transfer
It’s end of august, the grass is green, the sky is blue, it’s 20 degrees Celcius, and I am at 800m altitude, in other words: perfect conditions for downhill skiing. Yes, I watched a Swiss …
Help, my training is not evidence-based …….
Evidence-based practice, the magic words that I have been hearing buzzing around for the last 10 years. “Is your work evidence-based?” “We have to work evidence-based, otherwise……” I heard it from physical therapists, doctors and …
The athlete has a brain, why do we neglect it?
For many years coaches and scientists have spent most of their time studying and working the heart and the muscles as the main “performance organs” of the athlete, and no doubt they are important. They …
Need teambuilding? Use your nasal spray.
I won’t go as far as the people who say that psychology is biology not understood yet, but I came to this subject because an acquaintance of mine recently asked me ‘what is the main …