I had the pleasure of speaking with Paolo Fossa and presenting my project 'Sports science as a tool for movement optimization, injury prevention and performance enhancement in the work practice of contemporary dancers' to his BET podcast listeners...Continue Reading

This article is the last part of the BACK TO THE GYM series. It is meant to give an overview of my training progress and hopefully at the same time provide further insight into how to plan and develop a workout...Continue Reading

We all like to train to get better at what we do. Now if our performance stagnates or even declines, it may be because we are undertraining and simply not pushing ourselves hard enough, but it may also be that we are overreaching or overtraining...Continue Reading

Nutrition is a major concern for virtually all athletes, and especially when it comes to strength training programs, adequate protein intake is a key consideration...Continue Reading

This article is intended as a follow-up to DIS-TANZ DIARY #22. Whereas the before mentioned part was mainly about presenting my current training plan, the focus will now be on giving an overview of which muscles are trained by which exercises...Continue Reading

As I am currently in the fourth week of my muscle hypertrophy training and am therefore dealing a lot with the underlying mechanisms, I want to take the opportunity to present one of the most important voices in this field: Dr. Brad Schoenfeld...Continue Reading

I can't stress enough how happy I am that the gyms in Berlin are finally open again and that I can actually get back to physical work after half a year of dealing theoretically with the connections between sports science and dance...Continue Reading

Simultaneously to my teaching activities with the Ballet de Lorraine in Nancy and the Cie. Paracosm in Blagnac, I've spent the last two weeks working my way through SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF STRENGTH TRAINING by Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky...Continue Reading

One of the many objectives of my DIS-TANZ-SOLO endeavor is to integrate sports science approaches into my classes so that even dancers who do not have the means and resources to acquire such knowledge on their own can benefit hands-on from my research...Continue Reading

After examining the different types of movement at our joints in DIS-TANZ DIARY #18, this time we'll take a closer look at the muscles of the lower limb and their function in relation to these different types of movement...Continue Reading