In the first part of this series, we went through the research in the area of sprint cycling, and learned the physiological reality of sprint cycling: the de...

An experiment in taking one coaching problem as far as physiology, biomechanics, psychology, and practical experience will allow.

With age, most people tend to drift into narrower and narrower tracks. Not just in training, but generally: political views become more fixed, taste in music...

One of the forgotten questions in training is not what exercise to choose, nor how much load to prescribe, but when to change the challenge.

It's true that we should not make an exercise too hard because when something is too hard, we don't learn much, and even more importantly we won't enjoy the ...

Most training plans assume that tomorrow will function more or less like today. The same athlete with the same capacities. Just add a little more load, or do...

> ”The teacher must be capable of being more teachable than the apprentices”

> "Only in failure, in the greatness of a catastrophe, can you know someone.”

> "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result"

> Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

In the realm of sports science what can be thought of as classical periodization was originally discussed by Russian scientist Leo Matveyev and further expan...

> "In early life I thought of studying economics, but had found it too difficult!"

> “Science gives direction to the forward movement; while art causes the actual progression.  Thus a false activity of science inevitably causes a correspond...

> he said, “I warn you: fly a middle course.

> Got to hurry, got to hurry, I don't believe you worry

> "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."

> The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

> Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

> What we call the beginning is often the end // And to make an end is to make a beginning. // The end is where we start from.

> ”The aim of physical preparation is to go beyond the level of motor ability that can be achieved by the sole practice of the chosen ability”

> A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

> Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Just another short intermission before finishing up my series on Coaching tips. Because the Swedish national championship in track cycling (where I was set t...

One is often lured into thinking that starting point of making day to day decisions in coaching is the long term plan. But it probably ought to be something ...

Let's take a short detour before continuing on the series on coaching and talk about something very dear to me: the snatch and why it is important in a stren...

> ”For dogma is expressed in the form of assertion, and is unshakeable, but at the same time any practical opinion can be said to harmonize with it”

One other thing from Bondarchuk I have been inspired by is his exercise classification because it resonates well with the idea of the systems pro­duced throu...

Let’s use my own cycling sprint training as an example of how phase-shifts can look like in performance: In January 2019 I had almost given up trying to reco...

Mechanistic models constituted the first major scientific discourse and paved the way for the future development of science. With the core ideas being the Ne...

For quite some years ago I read an article on the notorious website t-nation.com by Dan Trink. Dan is, amongst many (?) other things, the creator of the trai...

As designing training programs is quite like trying to resolve unsolvable paradoxes it is a hard task. Especially when doing them for groups: groups made up ...

Apart from increasing learning and performance group training has many other benefits that work to keep members coming back for the next training session suc...

When learning movement there must be room for self-organization of the motor patterns forming this movement. Otherwise we would only learn how to perform a v...

“Combination pharmacotherapy offers the potential to decrease the incidence of cardiovascular disease worldwide, perhaps especially in people who have never ...