New views
If you are a hypochondriac or suffer from compulsive hand washing or a cleaning disorder, stop reading now! You are warned! Since a few years popular advertisements tried to convince us to take probiotics as …
Misinterpretations and misunderstandings
And our world is full of them, here is a misunderstanding about a popular issue in sprints training and a questions that I have heard since I started working with this: “As far as resisted …
Towards a new concept of training, part 1
A lot has been published in recent years about the training of athletes. Most of it came from the field of exercise physiology and many coaches accepted this information rather uncritically. Short-term experiments with small …
It’s seminar time….
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 …
HRV spectral analysis
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…. what could it mean to me?
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 …
A visit to Utopia.
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 …
Big data? Be critical ….
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 …
Training as resource management: 7 very basic questions in training.
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 …
Mental toughness: how to improve it. General basics.
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, …