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22/04/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans [Part 4]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 22/04/2017Strengths/Weaknesses - The concept of strength and weaknesses is a bit abstract, but it can guide our decision making when planning out the micro-cycle. It is most frequently related to team tactics and game plan (strategy), but it can be applied to other training components/buckets (technical, physical, mental, etc) as well.
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08/04/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans [Part 3]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/04/2017The dissection of the training week (microcycle) and distinction into recovery, loading and taper mini-blocks is of course artificial and represents a simple “jig” to be used to make decision making easier. In most cases we will use this simple model, but in some we need to realize it is only a model or a “jig” and we need...
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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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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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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.
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09/04/2016
Grand Unified Theory of Sport Performance
By Mladen Jovanovic on 09/04/2016Grand Unified Theory of Sport Performance I have already spoke about Grand Unified Theory (GUT) in Random Thoughts on the New Frans Bosch Book and More blog post, but wanted to give this topic a bit more thought in this video.
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01/04/2016
Agile Periodization: Concepts and Ideas
By Mladen Jovanovic on 01/04/2016Continuing on the topic of Agile Planning, I made a more “practical” video about concrete applications in performance environment. In this video I’ve utilized Dave Snowden awesome Cynefin Framework in distinguishing Simple, Complicated, Complex and Chaotical systems and problems and how they might demand different approaches.