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29/01/2017
Football Periodization: Review and Opinions
By Mladen Jovanovic on 29/01/2017I recently joined my old club FK RAD as S&C coach, helping them with the pre-season. Having the skin in the game again, it made me realize that there are a lot of things that struggle me and I don’t have a clear checklist for dealing with them. So, I will most likely be trying to organize my thoughts...
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04/01/2017
How to Easily Collaborate With Your Team and Create the Efficient Annual Plan
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/01/2017The main reason why I have decided to make a special version of Annual Planner for Sports, which you can put on Google Sheets with two clicks only. It allows you to easily create a flexible annual plan and sessions calendar for your team.
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02/01/2017
The Best of Complementary Training in 2016
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/01/2017Here is my list of the best articles of Complementary Training in 2016: 1) What Do You Need to Know as a Sport Scientist Besides Sport Science (Addendum); 2)New Exercise Classification; 3) Managing (High) Performance Teams Using Scrumban Boards; 4) Agile Periodization: Concepts and Ideas; 5) Grand Unified Theory of Sport Performance; 6) ...
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17/12/2016
Rep Guidelines
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/12/2016This is a quick and easy table you can use when programming your strength workouts. In comparison to previous version, this table is more streamlined and more simple, plus some Prilepin volume guidelines were added.
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19/11/2016
Testing Endurance for Team Sport Athletes
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/11/2016There are numerous endurance tests that a strength and conditioning coach (S&C from now on) might use. So many that it is confusing which one to choose and why. For that reason, I decided to write this article: I want to outline my reasoning and rationale when selecting an endurance test.
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05/11/2016
Experts answer: What Is Your Take On Field Testing For Sprinters?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 05/11/2016Here are the answers of couple of experts and world class sprinter coaches regarding the topic of field-testing for sprinters. The coaches and the starter of this discussion wanted to stay anonymous.
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08/09/2016
6 Weeks Running Program for Soccer Players
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/09/2016I’ve designed a simple 6 weeks running program for soccer, something that you can use with your athletes on the break or have it in your toolbox and apply it if needed in the RTP protocols or as extra conditioning. To make this program more individually tailored, I’ve used MAS – maximum aerobic speed.
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27/08/2016
Planning the Strength Training – The Addendum
By Mladen Jovanovic on 27/08/2016In year 2008 I wrote series of articles about Planning the Strength Training. Back then, my “philosophy” (or should I say model of reality?) was (and I believe still is) highly influenced by Mark Rippetoe’s books: Starting Strength and Practical Programming. It made perfect sense and it represented reasonable model of the strength training process as a whole. Years…
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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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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.