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24/09/2012
Intermittent Endurance 20-10
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/09/2012I have just finished the beep test and after an ALPHA test I did on myself I decided to share it and await feedbacks. Feedbacks are crucial before I put this test to version 1.0.
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22/09/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Part 3]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 22/09/2012Although I promised I will show you how to visualize the data using screen cast – I won’t do it. I started taping the screen and it took me more than one hour to actually explain basics, without going into advanced techniques, like name references, dynamic graphs and dash boarding (which involves a lot of use of functions like…
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21/09/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Part 2]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/09/2012Since the wellness questionnaire is basically a nominal scale, the method of calculating difference might be simple subtraction (Difference = Current Score – Rolling Average). Other calculations that are based on ratio scales might involve percent change...
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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…
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16/09/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Part 1]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/09/2012In the following series of screen cast I will show you how to utilize simple wellness questionnaire to monitor players readiness. The series will be done in three parts. Part one will deal with the design of collecting sheet. Part two will deal with numerical analysis using Excel and part three will deal with creating a simple visual dashboard.
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12/09/2012
Some thoughts on (intermittent) fasting, aging, cancer, cleansing, spirituality…
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/09/2012Weird title, right? Well, maybe. Without sounding New Age, and without making you guys think I am finally losing it, I think they are connected in a certain way. When it comes to this topic, people were mostly relying to the case studies and the word of mouth, but lately science is catching up – and it seems that...
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04/09/2012
Dashboard design
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/09/2012I have received quite a few emails on my last blog post. Most of the authors asked me how to create the dashboard that conveys clear and simple message to the viewers. Honestly, I am new in this area myself but I can point you to the following two papers by Stephen Few I found a must read: Graph design...
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02/09/2012
Player Monitoring – Team Dashboard
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/09/2012Player Monitoring – Team Dashboard I have been working lately on summarizing the data we collected and creating one dashboard in Excel (I am going to start using R, because I think I will be able to do more powerful data analysis and visualization and it is free). I use this sheet to store, analyze and visualize the data...