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10/10/2012
Percent-based training vs. Auto-regulatory? Can they be complementary?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 10/10/2012Percent-based training vs. Auto-regulatory? Can they be complementary? I have been writing recently on the behavioral aspect of exercise prescription (click HERE) and my ’quest’ to blend the pros of percent-based approach and auto-regulatory approach, while avoiding their cons. In the following table there is a short list I quickly made for the purpose of this article. Exhibit A...
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10/10/2012
Interested in Learning Statistics and R? Start Here!
By Mladen Jovanovic on 10/10/2012Interested in Learning Statistics and R? Start Here! Just a quick heads-up. I recently came across Coursera – a website offering FREE education: About Coursera We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are...
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06/10/2012
What is „harder“? –help needed
By Mladen Jovanovic on 06/10/2012I am working on an annual plan that quantifies the training impulses (or training load) for most of the training methods (strength, specific conditioning using SSG and running-based conditioning) based on the intensity, volume and density of certain method. For example, strength training impulse is %1RM * volume (reps) * frequency. So, if you lift 3×5 (15) with 80%...
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04/10/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Addendum]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/10/2012Just a quick update – My free Screencast account reached maximum bandwidth so the videos are not available any more. I decided to put the video files in my Dropbox account. So, if you haven’t had a chance to take a look at the videos, please make sure to download them (and other material)
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24/09/2012
Intermittent Endurance 20-10
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/09/2012I have just finished the beep test and after an ALPHA test I did on myself I decided to share it and await feedbacks. Feedbacks are crucial before I put this test to version 1.0.
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22/09/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Part 3]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 22/09/2012Although I promised I will show you how to visualize the data using screen cast – I won’t do it. I started taping the screen and it took me more than one hour to actually explain basics, without going into advanced techniques, like name references, dynamic graphs and dash boarding (which involves a lot of use of functions like…
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21/09/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Part 2]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/09/2012Since the wellness questionnaire is basically a nominal scale, the method of calculating difference might be simple subtraction (Difference = Current Score – Rolling Average). Other calculations that are based on ratio scales might involve percent change...
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19/09/2012
Running-Based Conditioning for Team Sports – Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/09/2012I have touched upon training transfer in the discussion of work capacity. Transfer is defined as: if I improve in doing X how much will I improve in doing Y? Or in plain English: if I improve my squat strength, how much my 10m run will improve? These two qualities could be skills or motor abilities. We tend to…
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17/09/2012
Running-Based Conditioning for Team Sports – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/09/2012There is a recent trend in team sports to completely ditch the running-based conditioning for the sake of performing only small-sided games (SSGs). There have been an over-use of running-based conditioning (i.e. running suicides for 20+min or doing long slow run for 60min) in the recent history and now the pendulum have swung into opposite direction – ditching them…
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16/09/2012
How to Make a Readiness Monitoring Using a Simple Wellness Questionnaire [Part 1]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/09/2012In the following series of screen cast I will show you how to utilize simple wellness questionnaire to monitor players readiness. The series will be done in three parts. Part one will deal with the design of collecting sheet. Part two will deal with numerical analysis using Excel and part three will deal with creating a simple visual dashboard.
