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21/12/2014
FREE E-book: “Triphasic Training: A High School Strength and Conditioning Manual”
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/12/2014Free Triphasic Training PDF Book: A High School Strength and Conditioning Manual Cal Dietz and Matt Van Dyke released a Triphasic Training pdf book “A High School Strength and Conditioning Manual”. This is a move that needs to be congratulated and appreciated. If you are familiar with their approach (Triphasic Training philosophy), and even if you are not, you will find...
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15/12/2014
Great Videos by Fusion Sport on Smartabase and Monitoring
By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/12/2014Fusion sport has posted great videos on training monitoring on their YouTube channel. Some of the videos are from ASCA conference and some are from the latest international SMARTABASE user conference. I highly suggest you spend some time and check these videos out.
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12/12/2014
Tactical Periodization: Interview With Two of My Colleagues
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/12/2014Tactical periodization is currently the hot topic of the most team sports periodization (planning) talks and discussions. I think it has a lot to offer as the anti-dote to the traditional motor-abilities and physiology-based approach(es) who were dominating (and still are) the team sport coaches educations and practices.
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06/12/2014
Training Load Monitoring – Seeing the Big Picture
By Mladen Jovanovic on 06/12/2014I already mentioned it in the introduction, but basically we have three components: training load and reaction to that load, where current state and context moderates the interaction between the two.
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18/11/2014
The single most important thing to improve your “gainz” in the gym
By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/11/2014Apparently people love clicking on posts entitled like this one: “The best exercises you are not doing”, “Five ways to beach body”, “Six new diets to make you lean” and so forth. I just hate those dumb articles – but let’s be honest here, I tend to open/click them anyway. These marketing strategies (teasing) seems to work, even if...
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13/11/2014
Individualization – Are We Doing It Wrong?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/11/2014This is the screen cast video from Evolution of Athlete Conference where I couldn’t participate live due recent relocation to Qatar. I’ve discussed some of theoretical issues behind concept of individualization and provided simple theoretical framework.
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06/11/2014
Making Sense Out of the Session GPS Data
By Mladen Jovanovic on 06/11/2014We collect more and more data and it is becoming increasingly difficult to make meaning out of it. What I would like to do is to present one simple way to make the meaning out of session GPS data using LOF and Clustering. Most GPS units produce multiple features p compared to number of observations n, so we are…
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01/11/2014
Interview With Rob Gathercole on Alternative CMJ Analysis and NMF
By Mladen Jovanovic on 01/11/2014I have recently read two great papers on using alternative metrics when analyzing countermovement jump (CMJ) with the goal of evaluating both acute (neuromuscular fatigue, or NMF) and chronic training effects written by Rob Gathercole et al.
I was amazed by how much new food for thought have been inside and how great was the novel combination of inferential statistics…
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28/10/2014
New start at the Aspire Academy
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/10/2014I have recently joined the Football Performance and Science department at Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar, as a football physiologist. My closest colleagues and supervisors are Kenny McMillan, Warren Gregson and Hani Al-Haddad. Martin Buchheit used to work here, but he recently moved to PSG, Paris. The roles I will be taking is supporting 1999 and 2000 generation of...
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22/10/2014
Banister Impulse~Response model in R [part 3]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 22/10/2014Here is the another ‘playbook’, but this time on my own data set during high-frequency project I did in 2013. The data set features estimated 1RM using velocity (which I measure during the lifts). I have also measure Peak Velocity and Mean Power in CMJ w/20kg before lower body workouts. Those four are response variables.