NICO D’HAENEN, Athletic Development Coach

3802 SENTA Tower, 140 Legazpi St., Legaspi Village

Brgy. San Lorenzo, Makati City, Philippines 1229

Mobile: +63 917-9895055

E-mail: n.dhaenen@gmail.com

Birthdate: November 14, 1975

Nationality: Belgian

OBJECTIVE:

To share my knowledge, passion, and below training principles on athletic performance

development to athletes, coaches, and organizations who adheres long-term and valuable
results.

 Movement Assessment and Performance Testing

Knowledge of exercises cannot help movement until we expose a baseline. This baseline
will show that sometimes exercise helps an athlete move well and sometimes it
contributes to greater levels of dysfunction. Through movement assessment and
performance testing a clear baseline to reduce or resolve movement and movement
pattern asymmetries of an individual can be identified. It has always been in my training
protocol to assess all athletes to determine their movement competencies and power
profile to ensure a program will appropriately challenge their abilities. My training
discipline imposes mindfulness and education because athletes want to (need to) know
why they are doing something. Getting athletes to train with diligence and intent is all
about teaching them how and why what they are doing is going to lead to benefits that
will improve their performance on court.

 Strength & Conditioning

In-Season: This is when most sports are typically high volume, low load and low in terms
of range of motion; so in training I make sure that we perform movements with low
volume, high loads and higher amplitudes. Volume has to be kept low so we aren’t
tapping too much of their energy so they can still perform on the court; while I’m
keeping the loads high so we can continue to drive motor unit recruitment, particularly
the higher threshold motor units. This will lead to improved force production, which
leads to increased speed and power. While amplitude for me serves as on if the most
important aspect of training because range of motion is typically lost over the course of
the season if it’s not worked at. If you don’t use your range of motion, you will lose it;
 And once the range of motion is lost, the chance of movement compensations to occur
increases leading to movement dysfunction and potential injuries.

Off-Season: This is the stage where volume is much higher and the goal is to prepare for
the demands of the season. I would adjust intensities and volumes throughout the off-
season to increase or decrease the stress that is placed on the athlete. This stress is
where we can develop positive adaptations as well as a greater overall work capacity
within each one of them.

 Clinical Support through Movement-Based Rehabilitation

I am not a Physical Therapist. However, my profession and qualification includes support

with medical issues such as identification of movement deficiencies, injury reduction or
pre-habilitation, optimizing rehabilitation programs to ensure that there is timely,
effective and responsive assessment and management of athlete injuries and to ensure
return to sport as quickly as possible.

 Developing Mentally Resilient Athletes

Mental game for athletes focuses on the strengths of their individual mental
performance, physical abilities and mental preparation skills. I believe that my
background in psychology incorporated with years of experience in sports performance
development is an asset that allows me to get through to my athletes; inspiring them to
overcome critical performance issues, and maintain their excellence and get even
better.

 Formation and Implementation of Systematized, Integrated and Long-term Athletic

Development Program

There are no quick fixes or shortcuts in implementing effective athletic program; it is a

process. Through collaboration with the athletic coaches and athletes themselves, we
can initiate formation of a framework or system that is Athlete centered and Coach
driven; one that analyzes and implement the actual development of the athletic
qualities of the players in consideration to the demand of the sport.

I see my job and capacity as an Athletic Development Coach to first and foremost
reduce an athlete’s chance of injury. Secondly, to build them as better athletes by
training all parameters of sports performance such as Speed, Strength, Power,
Flexibility, Mobility, Stability, Quickness, Reaction, and Conditioning. And third would be
to educate and instill within them the importance of purposeful training, nutrition and
recovery.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

 Athletic Development Coach, BATANG GILAS U16 (Philippine National Youth Basketball
Team)
 Strength and Conditioning Coach, College of St. Benilde Men’s Senior Basketball Team
(NCAA)
 Strength and Conditioning Coach, ABL Championship Team – San Miguel Beermen
 Strength and Conditioning Coach, SMART Gilas 1 Men’s Basketball Team
 Athletic Performance Conditioning, Philippine National Windsurfing Team
 Athletic Performance Conditioning, Muaythai Association of the Philippines
 Performance Enhancement & Post Injury Recovery, athletes from various sports & levels
 Athletic Program Director of USPC Sports Performance
 Founding Director of PKC Athletic Development
 Philippine’s top 5 Functional Fitness Coach in 2010
 2015’s Heroes of Health & Fitness (Mens Health Philippines)
 Leading advocate of Long-Term Athletic Development (LTAD) campaigns for young
athletes across the country.
 Functional Movement Systems Specialist, Sports Performance Coach and Mentor.
 Movement-based Rehab.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

 Integrated Performance Training

 Strength and Conditioning
 Linear and Multi-dimension Speed Training
 Power Development
 Injury Reduction / Pre-habilitation
 Recovery and Regeneration Techniques
 Movement Restoration, Movement Efficiency Training
 Performance Psychology (mental resilience)
 Long-Term athletic program development, implementation, and continuity.

CHARACTER REFERENCES:
 Marc Saint Laurent International School of Manila, Philippines
Email: stlaurent@ismmanila.com

 Lars C. Jorgensen Stairway Foundation Inc., Philippines

Email: lars@stairwayfoundation.org

 Raul D. Lazo Philippine National Windsurfing Team

Email: rdlazo@yahoo.com