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23/07/2014
FREE courses you should take/watch
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/07/2014These are couple of free (some are not, but it is cheap to buy/rent DVD) courses every human, scientist, manager should see. Not directly related to coaching and training, but provides great ‘complementary’ knowledge and tools. It is also great not to be sheep. I won’t be providing any review for any course – you will just need to...
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19/07/2014
Simplifying the Complex – Interviewed by Ron McKeefery
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/07/2014Simplifying the Complex – Interviewed by Ron McKeefery I had a pleasure to be interviewed by Ron McKeefery for his Iron Game Chalk Talk show in late June. We had touched a lot of topics and I have enjoyed sharing my thoughts and chatting with Ron. Here is the video interview: I am not very happy the way I explained...
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11/07/2014
How to load inverted row?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/07/2014I usually do the same setup for loaded ring push-ups (great exercise for upper body horizontal push btw), so I was wondering will this work. The key is to use higher box (bench won't work) and set up the rings a bit higher, with the goal of creating more space between you and the ground. It is also easier...
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08/07/2014
Blast from the past
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/07/2014Blast From the Past These are the two old articles I wrote in 2005 and 2006. Yes I know, time flies. The Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training was published on EliteFTS (I think couple of times) and was nominated for article of the year (have no clue what happened with that). Unfortunately, that article is lacking pictures...
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06/07/2014
Couple Ideas to Make AMS Products Better
By Mladen Jovanovic on 06/07/2014Couple Ideas to Make AMS Products Better Here are couple of ideas/random thoughts to make Athlete Management Software (e.g SMARTABASE, EDGE10) better. AMS should be simple as possible. If one can’t use it, if it takes too much time to learn it, or it is not intuitive, then what’s the point? Bragging on how much you paid for it?...
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03/07/2014
The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution
By Mladen Jovanovic on 03/07/2014First off let me be clear – I have never been involved in national team preparation. Nevertheless, I would like to pinpoint to some issues that I believe are troublesome.
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28/06/2014
Planning the in-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6: In-season Strength Training for Soccer
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/06/2014I will jump straight to the case – with soccer players it is far more important to make them go regularly to the gym and to perform basic compound lifts than it is about some fancy exercises and set & rep schemes. It is about building habit, team culture and trust in the strength program.
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24/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training Part 5
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/06/2014What’s the point behind using START and STOP velocities to prescribe strength training instead of using percentages and reps (or rep ranges) and even RPE system? Is the complexity worth it? What do we gain?
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20/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/06/2014In the previous installment we dealt with creation of individualized rep-max profile. In this part we will deal with one concept that I like to call Velocity/Exertion.
I am pretty sure NO ONE has ever written about it before – nor in books, nor in research papers, nor it online blogs and forums (if someone did, please correct me).
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16/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/06/2014In the previous installment we dealt with analysis of progressive 1RM test, and we got Load/Velocity profile. One thing that is important from Load/Velocity profile, from velocity-based strength training standpoint is MVT, or minimal velocity threshold, which seems to be pretty similar between athletes and ‘within’ athlete (i.e. over time for a single athlete).