April, 2015 - Complementary Training

Archive for April, 2015

  • Velocity-Based Training: Signal vs. Noise

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 29/04/2015

    This is a R workbook using my older bench press data, in which I want to discuss Signal vs. Noise of Velocity-Based Training (VBT) measurements. This could be used for future reliability studies. The goal is to compare within-individual variations of velocity over load-velocity relationship (noise) with smallest practical velocity difference (in my opinion difference in velocities across nRM,…

  • Interview with Greg Nuckols

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/04/2015

    Interview with Greg Nuckols If you are not familiar with Greg Nuckols, shame on you. Greg is fascinating lifter and even better writer that manages to cut through the noise to understand what really makes a performance difference. He managed to reconcile thinking and thinkering (as Taleb would say), both theory and heuristics, both theory and practice of strength training....

  • Non-responders: are they really?

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 09/04/2015

    Latest obsession of the researches is individual variation in training responses. The motivation behind this approach (known and emphasized in theory of training as individualization principle) is the creation of personalized medicine or personalized training.

    Unfortunately, sometimes we see these individual differences (in treatment reaction), although they are artefacts of within-individual typical variation/error of measurement and regression to the mean.

  • Interview with the best Serbian MMA coach – Mark Lajhner

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 05/04/2015

    Mark is my close friend and my MMA coach from Belgrade, Serbia. He is truly one of a kind – he is the best MMA coach Serbia has to offer, he is philosophically inclined and skeptic, entrepreneur and genuinely nice guy. He is interested in world history and politics, monetary system and everything else that should be of interest…

  • Strength Card Builder v3.1 and FREE Annual Planner

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/04/2015

    New updated version of Strength Card Builder v3.1 and completely FREE Annual Planner for Sport (without Analytics)