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30/05/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 4: Thoughts on Recovery “Mini-Block”
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/05/2014I will use this installment to share some thought on “Recovery mini-block”, which is one of four parts of microcycle: recovery, load, taper and game. I will focus on starters (see concept of functional groups in previous installments: starters, bench, reserves) and focus on one game per week, although this discussion can expand to two games per week as...
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27/05/2014
Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 27/05/2014Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important? The following paragraph is take from Wikipedia “Anscombe’s quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple statistical properties, yet appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x,y) points. They were constructed in 1973 by the statistician Francis Anscombe to demonstrate both the importance...
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24/05/2014
Strength Training Reps and Sets Schemes
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/05/2014Regardless of your training objectives (increasing strength in specific lifts, increasing strength overall, bulking up, leaning out, rehabilitation, maintenance, etc), key training parameters (intensity, volume, frequency, density) could be varied and progressed on different time scales.
Certain variations and progressions in training parameters are more suited toward different training objectives, but there exist commonalities between them that we will focus…
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20/05/2014
Results of Athlete Management Software (AMS) Survey
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/05/2014Approximately a month ago I have emailed a lot of prominent coaches and sport scientists a survey form to rate their experience with AMS products and also rate/describe their needs. The goal of the survey was to improve the experience with AMS products by giving their manufactures some form of feedback, but also share common issues between the users....
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18/05/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 3: Mick McDermott Case-Study
By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/05/2014It is great that coaches started sharing their own case studies and I urge others to share their own experiences and solutions. I am more than glad to share Mick McDermott's solution to in-season microcycle organizational problems. Mick McDermott was fitness coach for Al Ain FC for 5 years and currently works for Al Nasr FC, along with running Soccer...
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18/05/2014
Playbook: Exploring decathlon competition data. Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/05/2014Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data Click HERE to read part 1 Clustering What we might be interested next is similarities between athletes, or in other words, which athletes have similar profiles. For that purpose we can use Hierarchical Clustering and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which we are going to cover later HCWard <- hclust(d = dist(decathlon.normal),...
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17/05/2014
Playbook: Exploring decathlon competition data [Part 1]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/05/2014Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data Data set Decathlon data set comes from FactoMineR package and represents two competitions: Decastar and Olympic Games. For this example we will explore only Olympic Games competition, so we need to subset the data. # Load the needed packages library(FactoMineR) library(ggplot2) library(reshape2) suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(googleVis)) # Load the decathlon data data(decathlon) # Subset the...
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15/05/2014
Will Hopkins – A New View of Statistics [FREE PDF]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/05/2014I believe that printing it out is a lot easier to read than reading on website, I asked professor Will Hopkins a permission to share it on Complementary Training. He have agreed to share it.
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14/05/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer (Part 2) – Mark Williams Case Study
By Mladen Jovanovic on 14/05/2014A friend of mine from the UK, Mark Williams was more than kind to share some of his thoughts and practical solutions with me and the readers. I want to thank Mark for taking his time to write it down and share.
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13/05/2014
Podcast Interview for Pacey Performance with Robert Pacey
By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/05/2014Couple of days ago I have been interviewed by fellow coach Robert Pacey for his website and we spoke mostly about periodization and management issues in team sports (soccer in particular). The latest post I did on Planning the in-season microcycle in soccer was kind of extension of this talk. I hope you don’t mind my Borat accent and me...