The athlete’s body is a black box, thousands of chemical, electrical and mechanical processes are going on and we don’t have a clue what we are doing here. Yes, if you train, something changes, the …
This week the world of sports was shocked by the news: soccer superstar Lionel Messi pulled a hamstring and will not be playing for the time being. The suggested cause of his injuries however raised …
Spend all week lecturing on different subjects on different levels and for different sports. And it barely matters what the subject is, the same question comes up all the time: is it better to start …
This week I had an interesting talk with a good friend of mine, Charles van Commenee, former Technical Director of UK Athletics. Since we are both giving lots of presentations and lectures for coaches, we …
In the post before you have been reading about the value of monitoring the strength training process by simply making a force/velocity-graph and the force/power-graph. For that has been a great step forwards in make …
Yes, maybe I have been boring you with too much non-technical information about training and coaching. Of course, most coaches want to know the secret recipe, the golden exercise, the magic tool, that changes his/her …
After working with many world-class athletes from all over the world, and travelling quite a bit , I decided took take it easy in my old days, planning to take up gardening, solving Sudoku’s, playing …
It was early this morning when my mobile phone rang. The lady at the other side of the line was calling on behalf of a national public radiostation. And wanted to know my opinion about …
A few days ago I received a challenging question from a good friend of mine, personal trainer and coach, Jurjen Groen, and the question was: “what is do you consider to be “natural movement” ?”. …
For the longest time we have been educated with the idea that food consists of substances that service the purpose of supply of structural building blocks (e.g. proteins), fuels (e.g. fats and carbohydrates), or protective …