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28/05/2016
Minimum Viable Performance: Concept and Application in Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/05/2016Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a concept from “Lean Startup” methodology. I believe it has a lot to offer to training problems, hence the change in the name to Minimum Viable Performance. I have already written about MVP in my Agile articles and videos, but wanted to give this concept some extra attention.
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21/05/2016
Testing and Training Agility in Sports (Part 3)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/05/2016Technique of Running and Motion Direction Change - Running technique is crucial for the change of motion direction. More specifically, the slope of the body and low center of mass are essential in optimizing acceleration and deceleration, as well as for increasing stability.
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21/05/2016
What is Agility?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/05/2016I have found a very interesting video on Sport Science Collective facebook page so I decided to share it with our readers.
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19/05/2016
Undulating Programming with Strength Card Builder
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/05/2016In the previous video I explained differences between “traditional” and “undulating” approach to strength training planning. In this video I will show you how you can set it up in Strength Card Builder, which you can get for FREE.
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14/05/2016
Rotations Planner
By Mladen Jovanovic on 14/05/2016Rotations Planner is a very simple tool for planning rotations in Australian Rules Football that could be modified to do similar job in sports that utilizes planned rotations (e.g. ice hockey).
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07/05/2016
Undulating Programming
By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/05/2016In this video the following topics are covered: 1) The difference between “undulating periodization” and “undulating programming”; 2) The difference between variations and progressions (and similarities); 3) Different combinations of workouts/exercises and set and rep schemes; 4) Uses of “randomizations” (covering the notion that “random workout” is NOT just a “out of your ass” approach to programming, but could...
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04/05/2016
Masked Relationships and Multicollinearity
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/05/2016In this video and R workbook I am “playing” with linear regression and I am trying to explain the concept of “controlling” for one variable (this is common in statistics, but I had hard time understanding it until I visualized the problem), masked relationships and multicollinearity.
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30/04/2016
Testing and Training Agility in Sports (Part 2)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/04/2016Most coaches believe that different motor characteristics represent the “foundation” of agility, i.e. the change of direction speed, and therefore its improvement by training has positive effect on the change of direction speed improvement.
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23/04/2016
(Playbook) Converting Just Jump to Smart Jump
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/04/2016Coaches and athletes sometime change measurement/testing equipment. The problem is that the estimates from different equipment might differ (and they usually do). There are couple of soutions to this problem...
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21/04/2016
Testing and Training Agility in Sports (Part 1)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/04/2016Most sports played on the field, such as soccer, handball, basketball, volleyball, rugby, tennis etc, demand extremely fast movements of the whole body, which are in most cases performed in response to a movement of the ball a rival or a teammate. This crucial component of an athlete’s performance is usually referred to as agility.