Marco Arkesteijn's blog

I just wanted to post a recommendation to watch the two episodes of 'Frontline Medicine' on the BBC iPlayer.  I reckon all visitors to this website will get something out of it.

For me, it were these things:

1. It's amazing what medicine these days can do to deal with severe injuries, such as missing legs.

2. It's amazing what medical improvements are made to improve people's life when body parts are missing.

3. Despite all these advances, they still don't come close to the real thing

4. Therefore: The human body must be even more amazing!

I will be conducting a new study that will start in December 2010. It will investigate the effect cycling uphill  has on your cycling efficiency. I'm looking for trained cyclists who train an average of 6 hours a week or more.

Almost half way through a three year PhD and finally I've managed to finish the data collection of the first study!!!

 What a week it was!!!

So much sports on the tele; world cup football, wimbledon and now also the tour de france!

Sports science researches human performance in sports. Each research study is designed with a particular question in mind, but all have one thing in common: Participants!! Sports science simply  wouldn't exist without them!

And I'm looking for people who are interested in participating in a study I'm doing at the moment (and certainly for the next few months, for that matter). 

 This is part two of the comments I have on the documentary broadcasted by the BBC:                   "Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Who Has Ever Lived” and presented by Michael Johnson.

Yesterday I watched the documentary on the BBC about Usain Bolt, presented by Michael Johnson. It was titled: “Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Who Has Ever Lived” and shown on BBC 2, Saturday 15-5-10 at 5.10 pm.

Since this post turned out to become quite long, I've done it in two parts.
There were a couple of things I found interesting in the documentary.

'Sports science'.  A beautiful term, but what does it mean? To me, it means that a scientific approach (i.e. researching) can help to understand the factors that determine sports performance. This knowledge can then be used to actually improve performance, for example by a training programme that is based on scientific study. I believe it provides guide lines to help any athlete that wants to improve a specific skill. The main aim of sports science should exactly be that; to help the athlete reach his goals.

I thought I'd start the first blog with a short introduction on who I am and what I do.