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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
I admit, this is one of my hobby horses and I like to ride it hard and often. In many fields of life, industry, medicine and sports, the scientific management principles of Taylor, mind you …
The first question that you should ask is: who are … “we” in the title of this post? To make it easy for you; in this context, “we” are coaches, the people working with athletes …
It obvious to see that the international track and field community is divided in its opinion about the proposal of the president of the European Track and Field federation Mr.Svein Arne Hanse to erase all …