{"id":1715,"date":"2019-08-12T08:27:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T07:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T07:27:29","slug":"finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":"Finally&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I almost\nstarted to feel guilty, having neglected my blog for such a long time, but\nthere is time to collect and the time to share. In this very moment I entered a\nnew phase in my \u201ccareer\u201d if you want to call it that way. As you might have\nread I started coaching again after a 14 year break, and spend much more time\non the track than I intended, since I almost forgot how time-consuming coaching\nreally is, but that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are\nsome things I would like to share with you: my new book: \u201cMethodology of\nTraining for the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Century\u201d just came out at UAC.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-ultimate-athlete-concepts\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"PCBNkwGY3l\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uaconcepts.com\/product\/methodology-of-training-in-the-22nd-century\/\">Methodology of Training in the 22nd Century<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Methodology of Training in the 22nd Century&#8221; &#8212; Ultimate Athlete Concepts\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/uaconcepts.com\/product\/methodology-of-training-in-the-22nd-century\/embed\/#?secret=PCBNkwGY3l\" data-secret=\"PCBNkwGY3l\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My three\nco-authors, good friends of mine, sport scientists, but also coaching athletes.\nThe title is coming from my observation that although many coaches see\nthemselves as innovators or open-minded, reality tells me that this is far from\nthe truth. Most coaches are conservative and far behind in their education. The\nconcepts on which they base their ideas and concepts find their origins in the\n60\u2019s and 70\u2019s of the last century. While information from the biomedical\nsciences and sport sciences is exploding. And the best way to predict the\nfuture is to create it. All of this does not mean that everything is upside\ndown or has become redundant. It just means that we could do so much better by\nstaying on top of the information in our field of high-performance. It means\nthat just buying the latest gadget or app ensures state-of-the-art training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest\nchange is that I am now working for the Kazakhstan Athletics Federation for\nassisting their coaches and athletes on the road to the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190805-WA0005-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190805-WA0005-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190805-WA0005-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190805-WA0005-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helpingthebesttogetbetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG-20190805-WA0005.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Working with some athletes and coaches from Kazakhstan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting\nbecause I collected a lot of interesting information and developed new ideas\nhat I did not have the opportunity before to share .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kazakhstan,\nI guess that you might be thinking\u2026 mmmm. Well, Kazakhstan is a huge country in\nCentral Asia with the number or people like the Netherland, around 17 million.\nIt used to be apart of&nbsp; the former Soviet\nUnion and is in a phase of rapid progress in many aspects. Their history in\nsports is largely hidden in the history of sports of the Soviet Union for which\nthe athletes form Kazakhstan competed back then. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they have\nOlympic champions in track and field, to mention a few: Olga Shishigina,\nOlympic champion 100 meter hurdles in the Sydney Olympics in 2000 or Dmitri\nKarpov, bronze medalist in decathlon at the Olympics in Athens in 2004, and\nmost recently Olga Rypakova, in triple jump, second at the Olympics in Beijing\n(2008), Olympic champion in London (2012) and a bronze medal in Rio in 2016.\nAnd now heading for another Olympic medal in Tokyo. The important thing is that\nthere are quite a few young and gifted athletes coming up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some\nDutch people Kazakhstan might ring a bell, related to speed skating, our\nnational sport.&nbsp; In Alma-Ata as it was\ncalled at that time (now Almaty) there is a famous outdoor speed-skating\nstadium at altitude called Medeo where many records were broken in the 1970\u2019s\nand 1980\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kazakhstan\nis rapidly changing into a very modern country, where young people are taking a\nleading role in developing Kazakhstan, also in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short,\nan interesting challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The website of my company, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vortx.nl\">www.vortx.nl<\/a> (in Dutch) had an update as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the\nmajority of changes have been adapted and from now on I have more time to write\nmore posts for my blog. &nbsp;It is about time\nisn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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