Interesting find

I have recently found this website by John McCrone. It seems promising although I am currently too busy to read it, but I will.dichotomistic This site is large. There are several books worth of material here. It also mixes the scholarly and the popular. This FAQ will help you decide whether the site has anything to offer you.Q: What is the main purpose of Dichotomistic?A: It is about logic. Organic logic. A logic is a model of how...

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Interview with Mike Tuchscherer

I must admit that ideas by Mike Tuchscherer have impacted my training philosophy in many ways. Good ways of course. His book Reactive Training manual explained me the difference between Volume loading and Intensity loading, along with providing easy-to-use RPE system for auto-regulating training loads. He is very successful powerlifter himself and I believe he deserves more attention than he got. This is why I decided to pick his brain...

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Stability~Variability in Warm-up

Without going into the goal and the structure of  warm-up in details (for some interesting insights I suggest checking the following  articles by Carl Valle and Derek Hansen), I wanted to draw attention to interplay between stability and variability in it (although this discussion could be expanded to whole workout, training day, microcycle, mesocycle, season plan and longer depending on the time frame under which we are analysing this...

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Hilarious Bas

I really love Bas. He is hilarious. The second video makes my day every single morning. But to understand it you need to see the first video first. Enjoy!In da liverBreak... Snap... Crush with the footWhat can you do with th...

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Deliberate Practice for Coaches

I just finished Talent is Overrated and just starting the Bounce as recommended by Professor Keith Davids in this interview.All those books (can't say exactly about the Bounce since I just started it) goes into the nature~nurture debate and shows how innate talent is not enough and the importance of something called deliberate practice (for a short review on what is deliberate practice check this article by Lyle McDonald), along with...

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Random Thoughts

1. Political ViewpointsThis morning I was thinking about my political viewpoints and I couldn't name/label them, thus I searched for the online test with my friend  Cem Kantarci and I found this interesting and easy test that put you into a certain political viewpoint group based on your answers. Please note that this is only for fun, and it is really hard to answer on some questions with 'agree/disagree'. Actually, I would say I both agree...

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Interview with “Creative Monkey” Rodney King

I am very proud to present you the interview with “Creative Monkey” Rodney King, father of Crazy Monkey Defense from Johannesburg, South Africa. Watching Rodney coach and being a member of his personal blog – Inside the Monkey – I noticed that Rodney has a lot to offer, not only to martial arts students, but also coaches from other sports. His unique coaching style is a real life example of constraints-led approach to skill acquisition, along with...

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