I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with 2013 Seminar Presenter Henk Kraaijenhof on the preparation of athletes. Our 90 minute discussion covered topics ranging from team vs. individual training situations, adapting programming both based on sporting activity and athlete’s ability, the mental aspect of training, and the technology he utilizes and how…
“When you talk about Athlete’s For Life you want to have consistency, your’e buying into the people that were providing you that shoulder to lean on and that advice for you to get better while you were here. If it basically recycled every year where was that relationship? How do yo build a relationship in…
“I think most of what we do in training is supplements, it’s supplementation.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html Devan McConnell joins us for another My Thoughts Monday…
“So, if you do explosive training, if you do power training what is very important is the quality of the training. It’s not by volume, it’s the intensity. Intensity means quality.” In his second presentation from The 2013 Seminar, Henk Kraaijenhof breaks down different methods he has utilized in improving explosive power in athletes. The…
“The brain is the most complicated entity in the known universe and consists of many different parts working mostly unconsciously but─ we hope─ in a reasonably co-ordinated way.” -I. H. Robertson As we all know, in athletics, what ultimately matters are wins and losses; both at the individual and team levels. The Winner Effect, goes…
“What these variables are telling you is how you’re getting to the end product of that jump height essentially, and I think that’s where were we will find with the study, across different positions of rugby, especially sense it carters for a lot of different physical characteristics, that you’ll see how that will change from…
“There’s been a lot of positives that have come not just for individual coaches, but for coaches in the profession as a whole because of our connections to specific sport coaches.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The…
“The major purpose is to discuss the influence of pre-exercise arousal on sympathoadrenal neurohomones (epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine) on muscular force expression during resistance exercise.” If you tend to “nerd out” when it comes to the history of training, and/or the scientific break down of specific physiological adaptations to training, this presentation will be right…
