Given the limited duration of a sporting career at the highest level, many elite athletes choose to develop a different, new professional career after their sporting career. Perseverance and dealing...
An athlete's happiness in life is not necessarily related to how full his or her trophy cabinet is. Tennis player Naomi Osaka (23) - four-time Grand Slam winner and the highest-paid athlete on Earth...
Overview of new publications by members of our research group (January - March 2021) A mixed methods evaluation of a pressure training intervention to develop resilience in female basketball players...
Research in sport psychology shows that how athletes develop mentally is often determined by how they develop next to, rather than just on the sports field. To illustrate this, Wylleman emphasized...
Winning the Olympics ... It is the dream of many young sports talents. They work for it for years. But what some forget is that you do not just have to be the fastest/strongest to win. You have to...
We would like to introduce you to Mattias Dooms . Mattias is based in Mallorca (University of Balearic Islands) and will make a joint PhD under supervision of Koen De Brandt, Paul Wylleman and...
In the light of the devistating event of a young shorttrack athlete who passed away during a training camp following a cerebral haemorrhage, Paul Wylleman assisted the shorttrack coach and his team...
You haven't seen a living soul in days. Netflix is finished. And on social media you see your competitors train in a pleasant 25 degrees. At night you lie awake from the jet lag, the stress, or in...
Just like in 'normal' society, mental complaints are a real problem among elite athletes. They too can run into a mental wall. Following Tom Dumoulin's decision to quit temporarily with cycling, Paul...
Everything has become measurable in cycling. Cyclists are prepared for big races on the basis of detailed, scientifically based formulas. But how do you adjust emotions, feelings? In this article (in...
On January 27th and February 15th, the kick-off meeting of the new Erasmus+ Sport project "Dual Careers for Mental Health" (DC4MH) will be held online. The meeting will focus on developing the...
On December 14th, the preparatory meeting of the new Erasmus+ Sport project "Dual Careers for Mental Health" (DC4MH) was held online. The meeting was coordinated by our research group. It was a great...
Dean Prof. dr. Johan Vanderfaeillie invites you to the public defense to obtain the degree of Doctor of Psychology of dra. Nathalie Rosier . T he doctoral thesis defense will take place online on...
Eventually, every athlete is confronted with the transition out of sport. Additionally, the current challenging situation makes different athletes decide to end their sports career earlier then...
De Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Onderzoeksgroep SPMB) & FIFPRO nodigen u uit om op woensdag 18 maart 2020 van 17u tot 21u30 , af te zakken naar het hoofdgebouw van de Royal Belgian Football...
On Wednesday 4 December at 16.15 Suzan Blijlevens will defend her dissertation "Performance behaviour in elite sports" . The public defense will take place in the Academy Building of the...
On Monday December 2, 2019 , at 7 pm , Prof. dr. Daniel Gould presents his final lecture as holder of the Francqui Chair that was awarded to him by the Francqui Foundation on the recommendation of...
On the 6th of December 2019, NOC*NSF organises, in collaboration with SPMB, the International Conference of Performance Behaviour in Elite Sport. The International Conference of Performance Behaviour...
On November 3-5, Koen will participate in the 9 th Athlete365 Career+ Forum in Lake Placid, US. The Athlete365 Career+ Forum is organized by the IOC.
In recent years, there has been a strong focus on understanding the challenges of athletes who combine their sporting life with studies or employment. Two major European projects “Gold in Education...
