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Set up

Introduction (short video training-1996)

Content

Questions

Main road to performance


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Cooman faced a different pressure as defending champion the following year and onthe face of it her preparations had not been ideal for Madrid.Her old rival Ghr had defeated her two weeks before during the championships inLievin 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 inform let it go' of my defeats in minor competitions," explained Cooman. "I wasconfident 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 towatch the opposition.

"I hated my coach at that point but what he was doing was making me greedy torun," she said of the unusual pre-race routine.

The plan worked to perfection and Cooman defended her title in style in a stunningnew world record of 7.00 from Ghr (7.08).


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Did you do sports yourself ?

(you dont look like you did .)

100 meter 10.5

400 meter 47.4

3 times national champion400 m indoors


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Introduction

sprint coach 1976-2004: Nelli Cooman, Merlene Ottey, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, 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


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How did I get to this subject?Our quest as coaches to decrease our classical uncertainties:

- is my athlete the right stuff? - selection, how do I know, what to look for- what are the building blocks of performance? - my concept of training

- what can we improve and what cant we - effort and time

- what is the price of improvement in time and risk?

- how to mix and combine the building blocks over time?- how to arrange the building blocks over time? planning, periodization and

peaking

- what is useful in combination with training? nutrition, recovery, tools,preparation in general etc.

- how to apply general scientific findings to my individual athlete?- what is my role as a coach?

Important: ability to shift from focus to big picture and back (from tree to

forest)


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Inspiration and information


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Good read:Viru, A: Early contribution of Russian stress

and exercise physiologists; J.Applied Physiol,92, 2002, pg.1378-1382.


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John Wooden


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My giants

Carmelo Bosco

Atko Viru

Per Tesch

Jozsef Tihanyi

Mehis Viru

Marco Pozzo


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The difference between gold and silver, between

being a world champion or not, between succes

and failure: 0.003 secs or 0.05%!


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all these girls were talented

all these girls had smart coaches (e.g. Charlie

Francis) and trained hard

so what causes this small difference ???


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Biomechanics research


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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.


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starting and running technique is veryindividual, no averages here!

there are no new running techniques, just a

different view on the same subjects


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muscle fibre composition

also Merlene Ottey (coaching her from 1989-1997)


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80% fast twitch fibers?


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although muscle fiber composition is the best

singular overall predictor of physical qualitiesand 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?


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Next step. the brainbut how to measure the brain in real life .. EEG


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PubMed-articles / Amazon-books:

exercise training AND muscle: 15307hits/19890

exercise training AND heart: 10683 hits/13607 exercise training AND bone: 2429 hits/3152

exercise training AND brain: 1432 hits/7008


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Exercise means movement and the main tissueinvolved 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)


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Cardiac changes


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Skeletal muscular changes


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Monozygotic twins after endurance training

and after strength training


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the brain is the predominant

performance organ

sensori-motor cortex: where all the conscious

movements start cerebellum coordinates coordination source of hormonal system: hypothalamus

pituitary start of the autonomic nervous system and where can we find our biological clocks,

fatigue, motivation, willpower, sensory-motorintegration, anticipation, reaction time, decision-making, resilience, etc.


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But what about the brain?

we cant see it from the outside we cant take biopsies

hard to measure: EEG, PET or MRI (expensive,not practical or methodological problems)

hard to change (hypertrophy?)

and how about brain plasticity?


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studying the relationship between

brain activity and performance


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the brain is (of course) the predominantperformance organ

the rapid evolution of neurosciences is going to

help us to understand the brain and thushuman functioning and performance


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Parallel developments

development of MRI

interest in psycho-physiology and biofeedback(MilanLab/Mindroom Vancouver Canucks)

slow cortical potential (Omegawave) reaction time tests


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If coaching is a science, where are you?

Can coaches be replaced by artificial intelligence?

Thought experiment:

1. establish a control and experimental group ofyour athletes

2. make a copy of your training program and give itto your novice assistant

3. make sure the workload is exactly the same

Question: will the result (training effect) be thesame for both groups?


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if YES: quit your job and let your assistant takeover

if NO: we established a new issue: THE

PLACEBO EFFECT OF TRAINING (which is theadditional effect of YOU compared to your

assistant)


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84 subjects, women, 15-55 years, control and experimental group

Control group: pre-test - no comment - post-test

Experimental group: pre-test - work is training!- post-test

The total workload stayed the same in both groups!


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So what is the relevance for us? Part of the training effect is due to the BELIEF

of the athlete in his/her coach, making thetraining more meaningful.

The placebo effect might even contribute a

small percentage to the overall training effectin elite sports but it might make a hugedifference!

The difference between I do not believe inmy coach or my coach is unbelievable


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Who cracks? (under pressure)


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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


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My lessons learned Keep the big picture in mind and know where youre

going

Each athlete is unique and needs a custom-madeapproach to be successful

Train as much as necessary, not as much as possible

Staying healthy physically and mentally is half of thejob Training to win is different from training to compete or

training to train

Never be the limiting factor for your athletes, if theywant to be world class, you have to be that too


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Thanks for your attention

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