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Archive for 2014

  • Spider Charts Sucks!

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/05/2014

    Spider Charts Sucks! I am openly sharing my opinion (backed up with work by Stephen Few) that spider charts sucks. It is time for the sport scientists to move away from PES (Pro Evolution Soccer; game on Sony Playstation) and similar games influencing how we visualize athlete profiles. Let’s assume we have a movement screen scores and we want...

  • Interview with Matt Barr

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/05/2014

    Interview with Matt Barr When I saw Matt Barr’s keynote presentation on “Developing speed and power in contact field sport athletes” at ASCA Conference in Melbourne, Australia, I decided to interview Matt and take the opportunity to expand on the topic and pick his brain. Mladen: Hi Matt and thanks for the opportunity to interview you. It is always...

  • Website Update: Membership Levels

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/05/2014

    Just a heads up on the recent website changes. We now offer two membership levels: Premium Member and Member.  Premium Member is 150$/year and you get all the content and most importantly ALL the PRODUCTS for FREE. Yes, that includes updates and potential new products (yup, there are some new things under way). The price is the same as...

  • How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests? [Addendum]

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/04/2014

    How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests? Continuing on the previous post I had an idea to make further analysis. Please note that this is only a playbook. The idea is to transpose the data, and instead of clustering the athletes, we cluster the metrics or tests. What we are looking for is to find tests/metrics that are similar...

  • How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests?

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/04/2014

    How to Analyze Movement Screen Tests? In the recent post I shared the movement screen we designed and implemented. The question now is how to analyze the data and make real life decisions on it? What do we need to get from the analysis in the first place? In my (current) opinion we need these: Identify groups of athletes...

  • Movement Screen (We Have Used)

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 26/04/2014

    When I was in Hammarby IF (Stockholm, Sweden) we (myself and PT Mikael Klotz) created our own screening tool, mostly using FMS and PCA ideas (along with reading some research papers). One thing that most screening systems lack, in my opinion of course, is evaluation of joint hyper mobility

  • FREE Annual Planner for Sports and Strength Card Builder Print Out

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/04/2014

    FREE Annual Planner for Sports and Strength Card Builder Print Out I would love to rise an awareness on the two tools for coaches. Yes, coaches – not only strength and conditioning coaches and sport scientists, but coaches in general. Strength Card Builder This tool works under Microsoft Excel 2011 and later, both on Mac and Windows. It allows...

  • What Do You Need to Know as a Sport Scientist Besides Sport Science

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/04/2014

    There are new roles emerging in contemporary sports field: sport scientist and performance manager. To be honest I have no clue how to define them – sometimes they are just a way to break out of the normal terminology (see Semantic Stretch and Power of Association in Made to Stick book, which is by the way excellent) and appear...

  • Welcome to the new Complementary Training website

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/04/2014

    The new Complementary Training, besides bringing the quality content from the old BLOG, will include updated state-of-the art PRODUCTS that will help you coach more and worry less on Excel, FORUM where you can participate in discussions with other fellow high-performance sport experts and DOWNLOAD where you can download all the important documents, videos and data featured in the…

  • No-Holds Barred Interview with Carl Valle

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/04/2014

    It is always fun and insightful to have a no-holds barred talk with Carl Valle. Hate him or love him, whatever you ask him he always provide no BS answer and for that he needs to be respected. I took the chance to ask him 5 nasty questions and he really took his time and energy to answer them…