Ten dichotomies part 3
7. Training vs. rest One of the most basic and most often answered questions for any coach is: should we train and how often and how much? There seems to be an easy answer: yes, …
Ten basic dichotomies part 2
4. Theoretical vs practical. An eternal issue that is easily solved. A Dutch pedagogue, Langeveld, once wrote: “theory without practice is for geniuses, practice without theory is for fools”. The question could be: you can …
Just a funny idea to think about ….
Before I start, don’t get me wrong, I really respect people who take a conscious decision not to eat meat, fish, or animal products, in other words adapt a vegetarian diet or lifestyle. Even as …
Ten basic dichotomies (which explain some the problems in coaching) part 1.
You can compare a dichotomy to a Y-split at which you can go into two different directions of behavior or thinking. So you have to make a choice, which you do consciously or subconsciously, hoping …
Fractal periodisation
As a young coach and thinking about periodisation, I had a few questions, like: why do all periodisation models come from the former USSR, having in mind the models of Matwejew, Werchoshansky, and Bondartchuk. In …
Leadership in reality.
One of the advantages of travelling to the US is the buying of books that are not available yet, or much more expensive than in Europe. So I just bought an interesting book “My Share …
Exercise as poison, but a little poison might be healthy – the concept of gymnahormesis
I hope the name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim rings a bell. This Swiss-born “master of medicine, chemistry and magic”, better known as Paracelsus, already wrote 500 years ago: “All things are poison, and …
Placebo training
Picture this: you are a famous coach with a very good name in sports. Why? Because you are known to always bring out the best of your athletes and you bring the results. Now this …
Busy weeks …… again!
The frequency of posts for this blog has been lower for one simple reason: I am swamped with interesting projects as you might have guessed. What is keeping me busy? Amongst others my daily work …
Who’s ringing ….. and why?
In my daily work I encounter a lot of clients with a wide range of mostly stress-related symptoms, like fatigue, sleep problems, muscle pains, etc. Now the last year I find a surge of clients …