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14/03/2015
AFL Game GPS Stats Analytics Workbook
By Mladen Jovanovic on 14/03/2015Keith Lyons shared one game of data for one AFL game across four quarters for the #UCSIA15 course. I took some time to analyze it using R and created interactive and reproducible document (HTML) using knitr and markdown. You can download markdown file and CSV data file HERE
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12/03/2015
Training Stress Balance Workbook Con’t
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/03/2015In the previous video I was talking about two different methods of calculating Training Stress Balance and underlying assumptions. In this short addendum I will explain even better method of calculating TSB by combining good parts of previous two, discuss differences between calculus of TSB for “daily data” (e.g. training load) versus “occasional data” (e.g. HRV, readiness metrics) and…
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07/03/2015
Training Stress Balance: Two Methods of Calculation and Assumptions
By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/03/2015In this blog post I will share with you the Excel workbook you can play with, and also the screen cast of me explain how to use the TSB method. I am also discussing different pro’s and con’s of two very similar ways of calculating Chronic and Acute Load and their assumptions.
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02/03/2015
How to Easily Make Sense of Your Training Load Data Using TSB
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/03/2015Training Stress Balance (TSB) is a concept I first heard of in Training and Racing with Power Meter by Allen and Coggan in 2010 and I immediately found it very interesting and tried to implementing couple of times. Learn how to implement it in this article.
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13/02/2015
GPS Training in Team Sports – Implications for Coaching
By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/02/2015GPS Training in Team Sports Implications for Coaching On Friday, 27th March I will be giving a webinar on GPS use in team sports at Brendan Chaplin’s “Meeting of the Minds” 2015 Conference. I have written a bit on making sense on GPS data, but in this webinar I plan expanding further and covering things such as: Drills classification...
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05/02/2015
Reconciling Sheiko and Westside
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30/01/2015
On Reading… and Fear
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/01/2015On Reading… and Fear Here is a thought to consider: we buy and read books not in a hope we will learn something new, but in fear we will not learn something new and useful otherwise. We check what others are reading, and we might buy and read in fear we will be missing something others won’t. Please note...
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25/01/2015
Periodization Confusion? Full Video From Windsprint Conference
By Mladen Jovanovic on 25/01/2015Periodization Confusion? Full Video From Windsprint Conference As you probably know, I gave a presentation on reconciling periodization/training “confusions” at Windsprint (organized by Håkan Andersson). The slides are available for some time (LINK), but I recently got the videos so I decided to make them available for the members. Please note that this presentation is my first overall and...
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20/01/2015
Effect of Typical Variation of a Test on Confidence Interval
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/01/2015Confidence intervals gives us the range of a given statistic when generalizing from a sample to a population. The simplest example could be mean of a sample (e.g. average height) – what we are interested in are the generalizations (or inferences) from this sample to a population (e.g. average height in population). Due the sampling error we are not…
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15/01/2015
Four Important Complementary Pairs
By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/01/2015Four Important Complementary Pairs I believe that there are four important complementary aspects in training (and performance) theory (and reality). Understanding these four aspects can yield many dividends in your training philosophy and help you understand, or better yet, reconcile what seems to be paradoxes and dichotomizations of the training and performance. Skill~Ability Physical~Cognitive Goal~Method Sharpen~Saw (or Develop~Express) I...