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12/05/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 1: Complexity
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/05/2014One step toward that direction is solving the planning complexities of in-season microcycle in soccer (might be some other team sport as well, such as basketball, rugby, handball, hockey, football, etc). I have presented a following template and I would love to ask for your opinion or practical solution and rationale for it.
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28/02/2014
Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/02/2014Overview of the process - As I have alluded to in the beginning of this article, training objectives will demand certain training parameters within which we can employ various progressions and variations, termed set and reps schemes.
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13/01/2014
Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/01/2014The article will be published in two parts. Part one deals more with terminology and something that I call ‘intensity trinity’. I hope that this terminology will become standard in our field/industry.
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08/01/2014
Training Periodization, Sprinting, Tempo, Charlie Francis, Technology and Much More [Discussion]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/01/2014This is the discussion that emerged on my Facebook wall after my post on Stephen Seiler presentation for INSEP regarding the MENAGEMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TRAINING INTENSITY: THE POLARIZED MODEL and my suggestion for similar observation and experiment to Mike Tuchscherer involving powerlifters instead of endurance runners.
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27/07/2013
Periodization confusion – Slides from WindSprint 2013
By Mladen Jovanovic on 27/07/2013I had a pleasure to be one of the lectures at WindSprint 2013 held in Sundsvall, Sweden. I have finally met French sprint coach Pierre Jean Vazel who I know for years from Charlie Francis forum. Among other presenters were Aki Salo (great presentation on relays), Takanori Suyibiashi (Japanese sprint methods), Roland Lööv (his presentation was on Swedish,...
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21/06/2013
MMA Training Classification Using Bondarchuk System
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/06/2013I decided to publish the following tables that I have created to guide my planning/programming for one friend of mine and MMA athlete that asked for my advice last year.I have utilized Bondarchuk approach in classifying the drills for each training component (and goal) as I did in my Physical Preparation for Soccer manual and Periodization Confusion article.
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29/05/2013
Self-Experiment in Frequent Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 29/05/2013I decided to try out frequent training (upper/lower 6x/week) with using higher volume (lots of sets) of low reps with submax intensity and effort to explode on every rep as fast as possible. Here is the Excel file with all the data and program outline. If someone wants to perform certain analysis be my guest – you can...
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04/10/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Addendum]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/10/2012Just a quick update – My free Screencast account reached maximum bandwidth so the videos are not available any more. I decided to put the video files in my Dropbox account. So, if you haven’t had a chance to take a look at the videos, please make sure to download them (and other material)
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19/09/2012
Running-Based Conditioning for Team Sports – Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/09/2012I have touched upon training transfer in the discussion of work capacity. Transfer is defined as: if I improve in doing X how much will I improve in doing Y? Or in plain English: if I improve my squat strength, how much my 10m run will improve? These two qualities could be skills or motor abilities. We tend to…
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17/09/2012
Running-Based Conditioning for Team Sports – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/09/2012There is a recent trend in team sports to completely ditch the running-based conditioning for the sake of performing only small-sided games (SSGs). There have been an over-use of running-based conditioning (i.e. running suicides for 20+min or doing long slow run for 60min) in the recent history and now the pendulum have swung into opposite direction – ditching them…