HRV: new road or dead end street?
HRV or heart rate variability is a rather old tool to monitor the status of the athlete. HRV was already used in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the former USSR for this purpose. Nowadays unfortunately …
Recovery: a second thought.
Whereas many books have been written about training, very few books have been written about recovery. As we know recovery is an essential part of training, it takes place in the period of time after …
Health: a “new” perspective
Most of the time we look at health in a negative way, from the perspective of the lack of it; when we are sick, when we need a doctor and when the doctor diagnosis an …
Fieldtrip: yachtbuilding at Royal Huisman
After a very turbulent week I finally found time to update the blog. I believe that man is designed for moving on land, not on water, otherwise evolution would have equipped us with fins (there …
Innovation or in-no-way-vation?
I am used to raise the bar high in working with clients, athletes and coaches. That is necessary because nobody will learn to jump higher by lowering the bar! In 30 years of coaches education …
Muscle fibres: a real story, one of the few ……..
These days on many websites and internet forums about fitness, training or muscles you will find a lot of discussions, ideas and opinions regarding muscle fibres. Most of them however do not seem to have …
Who cracks??
Already at the start of my career as a coach I was puzzled by the well-known phenomenon that some athletes always seemed to peak (that is: performing their year’s best performance) at major championships where …
Periodisation: a fossil from the past?
There is no denying that if you plan, divide or schedule the training load over time, you are periodising. In the past mainly coming from the East Block several periodisation models have been proposed. We …
The information black hole.
Not too long ago Philip Zimbardo wrote a book called: The Time Paradox in which he describes the ways in which individuals think within the framework of their “time-orientation”. Some people mainly relate to the …
Strength training equipment 2.0: Exentrix
The use of equipment in strength training is not new. It started with simple implements like dumbbells, medicine balls, cattlebells and barbells to equipment like benches, leg extension, squat rack and machines, leg press etc. …