2016 - Complementary Training

Archive for 2016

  • What Equipment to Get and How to Organize Your Facility?

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 25/12/2016

    Some of the views might be highly biased, but I will mostly focus on strength and power equipment for athletics-based training (as opposed to strength-based sports such as powerlifting and weightlifting) and will not talk much about conditioning stuff you can/should get.

  • Podcast #11: Interview with Israel Halperin

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/12/2016

    In episode eleven of Complementary Training Podcast I am talking to Israel Halperin. Israel is a PhD candidate and Muay Thai coach from Tel-Aviv, Israel, who I’ve met in Canberra while he was with Australian Institute of Sport.

  • Rep Guidelines

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/12/2016

    This is a quick and easy table you can use when programming your strength workouts. In comparison to previous version, this table is more streamlined and more simple, plus some Prilepin volume guidelines were added.

  • Thoughts on Injury Prediction

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/12/2016

    In the following article, I am discussing the famous “J” curve in injury prediction, as well as simulate some data to show how that curve is estimated. I also show the distinction between association and prediction, as well as how to make training decisions based on the different costs of committing false positive and false negative errors.

  • Vacancies [December, 2016]

    By on 01/12/2016

    Here are the best sports jobs in the market. During December, we will continuously update the list. Please share, and let’s get the word out!

  • How to Use Excel to Automatically Create Reports – Part 5: Use a Scroll Bar

    By on 28/11/2016

    This is part five and we have got one more idea that I want to show you and that is a scrollbar. To find out more, please watch the video.

  • Two Interesting Resources

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/11/2016

    With the start of November we have two new resources that I want to give you a heads up about. Please bear in mind that I do NOT HAVE ANY financial compensation for promoting these on the blog – I just want to pinpoint to the new work from the authors I trust and follow. Hopefully you will find…

  • Testing Endurance for Team Sport Athletes

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/11/2016

    There are numerous endurance tests that a strength and conditioning coach (S&C from now on) might use. So many that it is confusing which one to choose and why. For that reason, I decided to write this article: I want to outline my reasoning and rationale when selecting an endurance test.

  • How to Use Excel to Automatically Create Reports – Part 4: Most Recent Results

    By on 15/11/2016

    In this video I will show you how to extract only the most recent records for a selected athlete using either the LARGE or the AGGREGATE function to provide the row numbers and INDEX to extract the data.

  • Applied Tempo Training For Rugby Athletes [Webinar Replay]

    By on 12/11/2016

    I have been working a lot recently on implementing tempo training as the primary tool for conditioning my athletes here at Toshiba. This is for a few different reasons: 1) Lack of HR monitors; 2 A need to condition all my guys at once; 3) A lack of off-feet training equipment- if they have to run, it might as...