Author: Henk Kraaijenhof

The word “natural” is use in many different contexts, but in most cases it is meaningless. In many cases this issue can be solved by asking yourself what “natural” or nature really means in your …

Elite sports, being a frontier activity, is often looking for the edges of, mainly technological, developments. Frequently elite sports is one of the first field to embrace new technologies. Some people start to wonder if …

As long as the profession exists this question is asked by the general public and coaches alike. The question is simple, the answer is not. One has to suppress the logical answer that a good …

First week of training with Olga Rypakova is over. Learning how she moves, thinks and feels, her needs and limitations. It is always a pleasure to work with an accomplished, experienced and mature athlete like …

Do you have them too? Those books filled with graphs and/or pictures of exercises and drills for your sport? Yes, as a young coach I bought a few of those in order to fill my …

Finally, a few hours of uninterrupted thinking, reading and writing. So time for an update. A few years ago I was looking forward to quiet old days, retirement, fishing,  little bit of gardening reading the …

It is not hard to find a topic to write a blogpost about: The World Championships Athletics in Doha, the case of Alberto Salazar and Nike, the world record in the marathon, and so on. …

Adaptation of the human body and mind is the foundation of the training process. The human organism adapts in a rather predictable and specific way to the stimuli that training presents. Most of the time …

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 …