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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.

The World Championships surprises

By Henk Kraaijenhof August 15, 2017 August 15, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"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 itemprop="discussionURL"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 itemprop="discussionURL"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 itemprop="discussionURL"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 itemprop="discussionURL"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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The elephant in the room for improvement.

By Henk Kraaijenhof June 11, 2017 June 11, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"0

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 …

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Sport scientists: can we do without them?

By Henk Kraaijenhof May 14, 2017 May 14, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"0

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 …

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A simple plan….. like always…..

By Henk Kraaijenhof May 14, 2017 May 14, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"1

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 …

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The slow disappearance of the critical mind and common sense.

By Henk Kraaijenhof April 19, 2017 April 19, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"0

Where do we, as coaches, get our technical and (self-)educational information from? Some colleagues may think that hardcopy books are out, so they rely on the Internet as their main source of information. Some colleagues …

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Back to the past….Keukenhof, after more than 50 years.

By Henk Kraaijenhof April 18, 2017 April 18, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"0

One of the advantages of getting older is having the pleasure to go back your past.( If you are twenty years old, you don’t have a past, you only think you have a future). As …

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