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Henk Kraaijenhof
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Introduction (short video training-1996) Content Questions
Cooman faced a different pressure as defending champion the following year and on the face of it her preparations had not been ideal for Madrid. Her old rival Ghr had defeated her two weeks before during the championships in Lievin and she had also finished an unthinkable second in the Dutch Championships. However, Cooman was playing a canny game and was unperturbed by the defeats. "I had trained very well in Los Angeles that winter and even my coach said you are in form let it go' of my defeats in minor competitions," explained Cooman. "I was confident and always liked to save myself for the big events." But her maverick coach Henk Kraaijenhof thought of a novel approach to her preparation before the competition by making her frustratingly sit out her warm up to watch the opposition. "I hated my coach at that point but what he was doing was making me greedy to run," she said of the unusual pre-race routine. The plan worked to perfection and Cooman defended her title in style in a stunning new world record of 7.00 from Ghr (7.08).
Did you do sports yourself ? (you dont look like you did .)
100 meter 10.5 400 meter 47.4 3 times national champion 400 m indoors
Introduction
sprint coach 1976-2004: Nelli Cooman, Merlene Ottey, Sandra FarmerPatrick, Mary Onyali, Letitia Vriesde, Troy Douglas, Patrick Stevens, Mohammed Al Malki, PierFranceco Pavoni, accredited coach at 5 Olympic Games (1988-2004) Other sports: Soccer: Juventus-Turin and Edgar Davids Cycling: Cervelo Test Team Thor Huskovd - TdF 2010 Sailing: Oman Sail National Olympic teams: volleyball, handball, field hockey Speed skating: Erben Wennemars Golf: Padraig Harrington Skiing: Herman the Herminator Maier Tennis: Mary Pierce Ice hockey: Vancouver Canucks Rugby: Ireland, Wales, UK Special Forces: BBE KM
Good read:
Viru, A: Early contribution of Russian stress and exercise physiologists; J.Applied Physiol, 92, 2002, pg.1378-1382.
John Wooden
My giants
Carmelo Bosco Atko Viru Per Tesch Jozsef Tihanyi Mehis Viru Marco Pozzo
The difference between gold and silver, between being a world champion or not, between succes and failure: 0.003 secs or 0.05%!
all these girls were talented all these girls had smart coaches (e.g. Charlie Francis) and trained hard so what causes this small difference ???
Biomechanics research
Van Coppenolle, H; Delecluse, C; Goris, M; Diels, R; Seagrave, L; Kraaijenhof, H: An evaluation of the starting action of world class female sprinters; Track Technique, Vol.12, Summer 1990, pg. 3581- 3582.
starting and running technique is very individual, no averages here! there are no new running techniques, just a different view on the same subjects
although muscle fiber composition is the best singular overall predictor of physical qualities and conditioning, it does not explain the differences in performance in athletes with the same composition If we agree that muscle fiber composition can be modified by training than the question is: how to do this?
PubMed-articles / Amazon-books: exercise training AND muscle: 15307 hits/19890 exercise training AND heart: 10683 hits/13607 exercise training AND bone: 2429 hits/3152 exercise training AND brain: 1432 hits/7008
Exercise means movement and the main tissue involved is muscle tissue Human body consists of 40% muscle tissue Some changes in skeletal muscle/heart muscle by training: - morphology and mass (hypertrophy/athletes heart) - primary function FT vs ST - biochemistry (biopsies)
Cardiac changes
the brain is (of course) the predominant performance organ the rapid evolution of neurosciences is going to help us to understand the brain and thus human functioning and performance
Parallel developments
development of MRI interest in psycho-physiology and biofeedback (MilanLab/Mindroom Vancouver Canucks) slow cortical potential (Omegawave) reaction time tests
if YES: quit your job and let your assistant take over if NO: we established a new issue: THE PLACEBO EFFECT OF TRAINING (which is the additional effect of YOU compared to your assistant)
stress is the great equalizer at the top we can distinguish athletes: -benders- they perform as we might expect (the majority) -breakers - they crack under pressure -blossomers - they rise to the occasion we can modify this, but its not easy, mainly a matter of perception learning from other fields: SF operators
My lessons learned
Keep the big picture in mind and know where youre going Each athlete is unique and needs a custom-made approach to be successful Train as much as necessary, not as much as possible Staying healthy physically and mentally is half of the job Training to win is different from training to compete or training to train Never be the limiting factor for your athletes, if they want to be world class, you have to be that too