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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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…
