Author: Henk Kraaijenhof

Striving for the ultimate performance seems to be an issue for a handful of people that I know. Yes, the fanatics, the outliers, the creative ones, the crazy ones who spend most of their time …

Once and awhile I have to clean my desk from the books that I received, bought and read. Thanks to digital technology my desk should be cleaner, but it’s not. Most people I meet, mainly …

I very well realize that this advice is against the current tide of sports organizations as far as nutritional supplements is concerned. But here is the thing….. I could not care less! In my opinion …

I started a small company called “Performax” in 1989 and I invented my own job title: performance consultant. Mainly because that was the world I lived in: creating champions or at least assisting athletes to …

I almost started to feel guilty, having neglected my blog for such a long time, but there is time to collect and the time to share. In this very moment I entered a new phase …

The title of a great song by the Byrds, and the reason why I did not publish a post recently.There is a time to teach and a time to learn, a time to write and …

One aspects of starting coaching again is that you realize how very time-consuming coaching really is: not only the travel to the track and the workout itself, but also writing training programs, go to competitions …

The old school/new school idea as far as I can trace back, arose some 10-12 years ago in  the US, when the concept of front-side mechanics came up (1) Front- side mechanics is the in …

Is there an “I” in team? An often heard commonplace in the Netherlands, repeated like a thoughtless mantra, when talking to team coaches about the relationship between the role of the individual and the team:  …

Our third seminar was a great success. Interesting topics, great international speakers, a smart audience, and lots of networking during and after the seminar. What more can you ask for? On Friday evening Dec.7 we …