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  • Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 4

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 10/10/2019

    Linear progression, linear periodization, daily undulating programs, medium-easy-hard, triple progression - who wouldn't be confused with all this strength training terminology. In this part I will give you a very simple tool that can help clearing up the planning confusion.

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  • Sports Vacancies in October 2019

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/09/2019

    Here are the best sports jobs in the market. During the month of October I will continuously update the list. Please share and let’s get the word out!

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  • Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 3

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/09/2019

    This part is where the fun begins. I explain the basics of the set and reps schemes by defining their "anatomy", organization of the exercises in the workout by reviewing a bunch of supersets, and provide a model for classifying set and rep schemes based on objectives, prescriptiveness, volume, toughness and "methodology".

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  • Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 2

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 06/09/2019

    What are Minimum Effective Dose and Maximum Tolerated Dose? Can they be objectively quantified and used when planning strength training? In this article I am explaining why they can't as well as what might be a better concept to use as forum for action.

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  • Sports Vacancies in September 2019

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 31/08/2019

    Here are the best sports jobs in the market. During the month of September I will continuously update the list. Please share and let’s get the word out!

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  • Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 1

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/08/2019

    What is training dose? What components does it consist of? How should it be estimated? Are subjective ratings such as RPE useless? How should training dose be distributed across time and toward different qualities? Find out in the following article.

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  • Return to Play in Elite Sport Following ACL Injury of the Knee

    By on 13/08/2019

    In this summary article by Tim McGrath find out the current best-practices in designing the return-to-sport program following ACL injury. Tim expands on each phase, benchmark tests as well on decision making regarding when the athlete is ready for the next phase or to play.

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  • Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 3

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/08/2019

    How do we aggregate the training dose? What are the pros and cons of different dose metrics? How do we predict 1RM from training data? What is “exertion load” metric, and why is it useful? How should the ballistic Load-Exertion table be adjusted? Find answers to these questions, and much more in the following article.

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  • Sports Vacancies in August 2019

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 01/08/2019

    Here are the best sports jobs in the market. During the month of August I will continuously update the list. Please share and let’s get the word out!

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  • Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 2

    By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/07/2019

    In this part I will cover total system load vs. external load, how to compare individuals, percent-based approach to prescribing training loads as well as other prescription methods.

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