LIJV Personal Training

13/10/2025

.denbosch I got some tips and instruction on my Bench and Convential Deadlift and man did i got humbled. For me its these days that are worth 3 hours and 20 min. of travel to just have to been told to adjust a few things but that make all the difference. It smashed the limitations that were bothering me completely away and gave me some fresh insight to get on with it. Personally i dont find such expertise in where i am now in the North so i am more than glad to look for it elsewhere.

insight is invaluable from those who give it to you to help you get further.

25/02/2025

18/12/2024

25/10/2024

Hyper mobility is a so called aptitude that allows a person to have a greater range of motion than than what is considered to be average.
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In daily life this often translates to 'being extreme agile'.
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There are, however, a lot of misconceptions about hyper mobility with one of the biggest being that it are the muscles that take most of the responsibility for the agility.
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While they do play a certain role (like with every movement) it is not as much the muscles than it is the joints that gives a person such a high level of agility wich is a result of having very supple ligament and tendons.
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The pending question is if it is possible to train while having hyper mobility. Short answer: Yes!
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Long answer: Often you are already highly flexible but next to that there are factors as strength, control and connecting. These three factors are always in essence in need of training and maintenance. Especially when it comes to mobility.
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Mobility means flexibility by strength, control and connection.
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Strength training or specific ways of training are both possible ways to getting better in moving and gaining results. Make sure the coach has a decent degree of knowledge and expertise of it.
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30/07/2024

There are principles, guidelines but there are just a few fost rules when it comes to training. Almost every kind of training. It's flabbergasting that there are still trainers out there who don't apply these rules in their companies. This is exactly what is poisening our profession so don't be one those charlatans or low end performers because high expertise and science pays off way more in the end.
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1. Consistency
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Random ass workouts mean random ass results. Many commercial trainers keeping you on a false leash by giving random exercises under the guise of: Variation. But even variation requires logical steps to get results faster than your supposed 2 Years.
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2. Individual Context
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Repeat after me: There is no such thing as general things within personal coaching, training and nutrition. Everything and i mean everything is leaded from out one his or hers personal background. Specific is the keyword here.
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3. The goal determines the methods, not the other way around.
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Methods are dependent on the goal and not a way to shape it. When you want to get better at running long marathons your probably not going to train on your ballet shoes to make short sprints. See what i'm getting at? Relevance is key here.
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4. Measuring = Knowledge.
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This is almost global knowledge at this point but the thing i want to point out is that these measurements need to be as analog as it can get. The more digital the more lazy the results and the more inaccurate it will be.
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08/05/2024

Van een klein begin komen grote dingen. Is misschien wel een van mijn favoriete latijnse uitspraken.
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Het klinkt enorm vanzelfsprekend maar vaak wanneer we groot dromen willen we soms te groot starten. Dit kan te maken hebben met ego, over enthousiasme, gretigheid of simpelweg te haastig zijn.
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Het is geen schaamte om klein te beginnen of zelfs een paar stappen terug te doen om vanuit daar weer te herstarten of een andere weg in te slaan.
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Het belangrijkste is dat er een ondergrond is, hoe klein ook en vanuit hier een fundering kan worden gebouwd naar iets wat jij voor ogen hebt.
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Sic Parvis Magna
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24/04/2024

Progressive Overload is one of the most essential factors when it comes to gaining results. Wether it is gaining or losing weight, getting more toned or lean, stronger or faster and even around cardiovisculair it is a constant factor that needs to be applied for progression.
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Random ass work = random ass results
Consistent work = consistent results
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Consistency is measured by a progression of overloading the intensity with the factors that wich you are working with towards your goal.
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So in simple terms: Consistent bringing the intensity a bit up in a safe and effecient way with the same factors as before. If you are better in it than the last time you have made positive adaptation and thus progression.
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What Progressive Overload is NOT:
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❌ Random workouts or loose bootcamp excercises.
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❌ Doing every set a heavier weight.
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❌ Adding more sets each session.
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❌ Starting at some point without knowing what was your last level of intensity.
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❌ Training for muscle soreness
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What is and does Progressive Overload:
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✅ Telling you the quality of your previous workout.
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✅ Making your body adapt to the new intensity.
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✅ Making you easily one of the people who actually takes their work for goals serious.
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✅ Giving you insight.
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✅ Testing your patience.
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✅ Helping you understanding your body, neurological factors and metabolism better fromout a practical point.
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20/04/2024

Cardiovasculair is the medical term for hearth and blood vessels. When it comes to improving it we refer to it as hearthbeat training wich would result in a better endurance, rythm and stamina.
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To lose fat cardio is not the holy grail of methods to do so like still a few would believe. The foundation of fatloss is energybalance. In order to lose fat you need a calorie deficit and in order gain you need to be in a energy surplus. Nutrition makes up this balance for the most essential part.
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It's fine to do cardio and weight training together. It does depend how extreme both are tough. The extremer the more you'll have to compromise and hand in a little from both sides but for weight training and a 10km run you'll be fine.
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Conclusion:
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Is cardio a necessity for losing fat?
- No! Weight training is more effective and better to keep at from the point of consistency.
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Can it be useful?
- Yes as an addition to your program it surely can.
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What does qualify as essential then?
- Energybalance, lifestyle factors and level of excercise
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10/04/2024

EMS Training (Elektro Musculair Stimulation) is a training where you put a strapped up suit on, get moisterized a bit and then get to work due to the electric pulses the suit gives you.
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Advertised as always it comes with the claim that it would be superior, more sufficient and effectivie in comparison with actual physical training. The workouts are 20 tot 20 minutes and the suit practically makes it harder or lighter for you...... and thats where the rub is.
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There is a limited progression here in the form of only going heavier in restitance. If you are working out or follow coaching from us you probably know that there are tons of ways of making progressive overload and building up the intensity like distance, time etc.
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With EMS these options become limited wich means that personal ceiling is reached due to that limit and not your limit so... breaking trough is not an option anymore.
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Aside from that is that its heavily marketed and commerced into sweet talking you into THE SOLUTION as an alternative for actual training. This may work if you target the people who do not like to workout or are rehabilitating with limited movements but other than that it really isn't as effective as they claim it to be and they also do not have the literature or research to back those claims up.
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21/02/2024

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