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Author: <span>Henk Kraaijenhof</span>
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Author: Henk Kraaijenhof

My name is Henk Kraaijenhof and I started this blog as a random collection of concepts, ideas, stories and events that are important or interesting to me in my work as an international performance consultant in a wide range of fields, and sometimes outside of my work. I will try to post a new entry every 3-4 days. Feel free to comment if you like.

Times of change.

By Henk Kraaijenhof November 26, 2017 December 6, 2017 0

What a month it has been. When one gets older, yes, you will too, life often naturally slows down as a preparation for retirement. Not in my case however, I am busier than I have …

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It’s seminar time! The first Helping The Best To Get Better Seminar.

By Henk Kraaijenhof October 5, 2017 October 7, 2017 4

As I announced in an earlier post, I am proud to announce my first seminar since 15 years, taking place November 18, in Hilversum, the Netherlands. For good reasons I decided that attendance will be …

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What has changed?

By Henk Kraaijenhof September 25, 2017 September 25, 2017 3

An interesting question that came up last week. Well, working in the field of elite sports performance for almost 40 years, one can see changes from then till now. So what are the major differences …

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Never do an exercise just because you can…..

By Henk Kraaijenhof September 25, 2017 September 25, 2017 0

At any seminar or course where I lecture, I see colleagues coming up with fantastic, complex, cool and challenging exercises. Look around for athletes lifting a kettle bell while standing on a Swiss ball with …

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Hypergravity and more…..

By Henk Kraaijenhof August 29, 2017 August 29, 2017 6

  I remember our first brainstorms about muscle adaptation to load. Not long before that moment, astronauts had walked on the surface of the moon where gravity is much lower than on Earth, (Earth: 9.81 …

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The World Championships surprises

By Henk Kraaijenhof August 15, 2017 August 15, 2017 2

While recovering from the accumulated lack of sleep caused by watching the World Championships Athletics the last 10 days I observed a few interesting things. I guess everybody  noticed the many surprises, positive and negative: …

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Peaking for beginners.

By Henk Kraaijenhof August 7, 2017 August 7, 2017 0

Isn ‘t this what it is all about? You trained hard for that particular competition and now you want to be the best you can be. Or are you just training to train, or training …

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Nature teaches, we learn.

By Henk Kraaijenhof July 24, 2017 August 1, 2017 0

Holiday is always a good time for slowing down a busy brain, reset the mind and let some new ideas come up. Science, mainly biology, physics and chemistry, is always my primary interest, much more …

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Why almost all our ideas about training are wrong (or at least: based on the wrong assumptions)

By Henk Kraaijenhof July 1, 2017 July 1, 2017 0

In the last post I already indicated the importance of the individual. I have been going through a lot of books lately to look at the same information I have looked at before, but this …

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New developments

By Henk Kraaijenhof June 22, 2017 June 22, 2017 0

Yes, it looks like I am slacking on my blog posts a bit. The main reason is I am working on two new books at the same time, which takes a lot of my time. …

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