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28/06/2014
Planning the in-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6: In-season Strength Training for Soccer
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/06/2014I will jump straight to the case – with soccer players it is far more important to make them go regularly to the gym and to perform basic compound lifts than it is about some fancy exercises and set & rep schemes. It is about building habit, team culture and trust in the strength program.
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24/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training Part 5
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/06/2014What’s the point behind using START and STOP velocities to prescribe strength training instead of using percentages and reps (or rep ranges) and even RPE system? Is the complexity worth it? What do we gain?
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20/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/06/2014In the previous installment we dealt with creation of individualized rep-max profile. In this part we will deal with one concept that I like to call Velocity/Exertion.
I am pretty sure NO ONE has ever written about it before – nor in books, nor in research papers, nor it online blogs and forums (if someone did, please correct me).
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16/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/06/2014In the previous installment we dealt with analysis of progressive 1RM test, and we got Load/Velocity profile. One thing that is important from Load/Velocity profile, from velocity-based strength training standpoint is MVT, or minimal velocity threshold, which seems to be pretty similar between athletes and ‘within’ athlete (i.e. over time for a single athlete).
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13/06/2014
Idealism vs. Pragmatism in Coaching/Managing
By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/06/2014I was huge believer in this Chinese “Teach a man to fish” proverb. Until I actually coaching team sports.
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12/06/2014
How to create individualized exercise profile in strength training? Part 2: Load/Velocity Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/06/2014I am repeating the data from the previous part before I start with the analysis and visualization. As you can see my 1RM in bench press with ~2-sec pause is 117.5kg and Ivan’s is 140kg.
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08/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training (Part 1): Testing
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/06/2014When it comes to traditional strength training prescription (a.k.a percent based approach) one uses his latest 1RMs and prescribe 3 to 4, or longer strength training cycle using percentages and reps (e.g. Week1: 5×5 w/80%, Week2: 5×5 w/82.5%, Week3: 5×5 w/85%).
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04/06/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle In Soccer Part 5: Planning the Competition Period in Soccer
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/06/2014In this article I have presented something that’s called “summated microcycle”, the solution I first read about in Total Soccer Fitness by Ian Jeffreys.