Karel Pardaens

Doctor of Rehabilitation Sciences (research on exercise testing in cardiac patients), KU Leuven 1999.

Close collaboration with cardiologists since 1993.

Freelance teacher at the ‘Vlaamse Trainersschool’ (Sport Vlaanderen), between 2005 and 2015: learning ‘didactical’ tricks of the trade.

Independent physical trainer and exercise physiologist since 2006,
organizing and teaching workshops since 2013, reaching at least 500 coaches up to date.

‘Distance coach’ of dozens of individual athletes of all levels and all goals: running (from 400m to 250 km, incl. trail running), boxing, mountaineering, tennis, triathlon, cycling (incl. mountainbiking), swimming.

Invited by FIFA for lactate testing of female referees in the preparation of the 2023 and 2027 World Cups.

Completion of exercise tests at Belgian Defence: summer 2024.

Special interest in sports and internal disorders, (chronic) fatigue, mental aspects of sports, top-level sports, periodization.

Structure is my middle name.
Evidence-based practice AND practice-based evidence. 

Allergic to pseudoscientific commercial nonsense.

Perfectionism as a coping strategy and a trademark.

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