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 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 …
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, 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Maybe you are familiar with this classic Buddhist story, often used as an example of mindfulness. “Once there was a Buddhist monk who practiced his meditation by walking in the forest each morning. One clear …
Here are three common wrong assumptions in nutrition: 1. Everybody has the same nutritional needs. Obviously not true, even apart from gender, age, weight, physical activity, every human body is different from the outside, but …