- Head of Physiology and Training of Euskaltel Euskadi World Tour cycling team
- Associate Editor for the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
- Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country
Earned my Ph.D.s in Biology of Muscular Exercise (University of Saint-Etienne, France) and Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (University of The Basque Country). I’m also a Level III Swimming and Triathlon Coach and coach olympic distance, Ironman and XTerra World Class triathletes.
My main research interests in the field of applied sport science include training methods and recovery from exercise, tapering, detraining and overtraining. I´ve also performed extensive research on the physiological aspects associated with sports performance in professional cycling, swimming, running, rowing, tennis, football and water polo.
Received research fellowships in Australia, France and South Africa, published nearly 80 articles in peer reviewed journals, 3 books and 28book chapters, and have given over 200 lectures and communications in international conferences and meetings.
I was Senior Physiologist at the Australian Institute of Sport in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 I was the physiologist and trainer for the Euskaltel Euskadi professional cycling team, between 2006 and 2008, Head of Research and Development at Athletic Club Bilbao professional football club, and between 2009 and 2012 physiologist of the elite swim team of the Real Federación Española de Natación.
Bravo Inigo!
Ça fait plaisir de recevoir des nouvelles et de voir ton blog. Beaucoup d’information. Je vais faire passer le lien à Clem, qui est à Toulouse en STAPS, il va sans doute pouvoir se servir de l’accumulation des tes connaissances depuis nos balades en VTT dans le Pilat…
Keep up the good work!
Michel
Merci Michel! Un bon choix de la part de Clem. J’éspère que son rugby et ses études vont bien. Bonjour à Hélène et Léa.
Hi dear mujika . I am sport physiology MS student. I am interesting research in tapering and detraining and overtraining. I have studied your good articles in this bases.My thesis was about tapering. Now I want study in this base for PhD. can I study in University of the Basque Country? Thanks alot for your guide.
bonjour Inigo
trés interessée par ton blog et avoir des infos par des liens thématique formation jeunes joueurs footrball.
bonne fête de fin d’année
Amicalement bisou
Claire
Merci Claire. Je ne savais pas que tu était intéressée par cette thématique passionante. Bonnes fêtes à vous aussi.
Salut Iñigo,
ca fait plaisir d’assister a vos communications à tunis vraiment c du bon boulot je vous félicite la qualité des vos présentation
j’espére devenir un jours qqun comme vous lol.
tu est un bon traducteur en plus lol
je voulais savoir si vous avez un truc sur l’équilibre acido-basique (pH, gaz du sang ) lors d’un effort intense. merci d’avance
cordialement
Souissi hassine
Merci Souissi. Il y a beacoup de travaux à ce sujet. Ma recommandation serait de commencer avec ceux de Hultman et coll. 1990, Bangsbo et coll. 1995, McKenna et coll 1997.
Merci Inigo c gentil de votre part
je vous souhaite une bonne année 2011.
Bonjour Inigo,
Nous nous sommes croisés cette année sur Poitiers ou je suis étudiant du DU avec Laurent Bosquet. (Bruno, former rugby pro and shaven head guy, you asked me if we had not meet before, don’t know if you remember)
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for your sharing some of your knowledge with us. About to finalize the DU course, I have just integrated a private performance evaluation structure based out of Aix en Provence that includes 3 of your peer scientists (physiologists and sports biomechanics PhDs) specializing in endurance sport performance athletes. To complete the DU, I’am about to submit a review presenting the actual knowledge and scientific research done in the field of detraining and recovery with in elite rugby union players.
Do you think I could send you the final work for you to review and let me know your thoughts about its contents?
All the best Inigo for your future endeavor and hope we can meet again.
Amitiés,
Bruno Dalla-Riva
Salut Bruno, j’aimerais bien lire ton travail sur le désentraînement chez les joueurs de rugby. Tu aurais dû le présenter ici à Nagoya!
Bonjour Monsieur Mujika,
Je viens tout juste de découvrir vos travaux grâce à l’entrevue que vous avez donné sur le site de Mladen Jovanovic. Très intéressant et je prendrai grand plaisir de lire vos recherches.
Au plaisir d’avoir la chance d’échanger avec vous.
Xavier Roy
Merci Xavier, je vais mettre l’entrevue sur mon site aussi. N’hésitez pas à partager le site avec ceux qui pourraient être intéressés.
Hi Inigo
Have you considered the use of Salivary Assays in your research to monitor performance biomarkers
I attend many conferences and the technology seems to be growing significantly in popularity
Best Roger
Hi Roger, I have not used it until now, but I am always open to new ideas and monitoring methods.
Bonjour,
Je pratique le “bras de fer” une discipline peu connu en France. Je recherche des methodes de plannifications (VICS), afin de me perfectionner dans ce sport. Si vous voulez correspondre avec mois sur mon devellopement, merci de me répondre.
Bien à vous,
Ciprian
Pardon pour les fautes d’orthographie.
Bonjour Ciprian. Je ne suis pas au courant d’aucune méthode de plannification spécifique pour le “bras de fer”, mais j’imagine que les méthodes utilisées pour d’autres sports de force-puissance comme l’haltérophilie devraient être aussi valables pour votre spécialité
Merci. Tu a quelques liens pour m’aiguiller?
Fleck, S.J. Periodized Strength Training: A Critical Review. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 1999, 13(1), 82–89
http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/serious-strength-training-2nd-edition
http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Periodization-5th-Edition:-Theory-and-Methodology-of-Training
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470019190.html
Merci beaucoup. Très utile pour moi.
hi there , i noticed you did an article on energy bands (power bands) , there is a company in the UK called Ionic Balance , who are doing something similair , and i believe they are just selling a placebo , but i can;t prove it enough , could you take a look at their site and their claims and tell me your thoughts ? many thanks
Mike
http://www.ionic-balance.com/
Hi Mike, I just had a look at this and it does sound like pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo; my guess is that this just another major rip-off.
Hi! I’m interested in your new book endurance training, science and practice.. I assume it’s also published in english ´cos you have also the table of contents written as so. Only concern is that in Finland there’s no english version available, only spanish, and there’s no selection on your website with language selection?
Hi Juha. The book is available ONLY in English. There is no Spanish version: http://www.inigomujika.com/en/books/endurance-training-science-and-practice
You can change the language of the blog between Spanish and English by clicking in the top right corner of the site.
Thanks! Yes, that I noticed that language can be changed between spanish and english on the sites but thought really odd that on http://www.booky.fi your book was informed to be written in spanish… Well, anyway it seems that your book is a must for me so I´ll order it from your sites.
Hi Juha. I got your order and the book will be posted tomorrow. Thank you.