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Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 3
By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/09/2019This 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 06/09/2019What 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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Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/08/2019What 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 Tim McGrath on 13/08/2019In 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 02/08/2019How 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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Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/07/2019In 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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Rethinking Performance Training & Agile Periodization – Part 5
By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/07/2019In this final video I am covering applications to planning, or Agile Periodization concept, utilizing Nassim Taleb “Barbell Strategy”, heuristic approach by Gerd Gigerenzer, MVP ideas (Minimum-Viable-Performance and Minimum-Viable-Program), iterative planning and randomization.
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Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/06/2019Before diving deep into the planning section, it is important to understand the basis of the percent-based approach to strength training, particularly what these percentages are based upon, how to test 1RM and prescribe a training while using it as a reference point, how to compare individuals and other topics.
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Shoulder Mobility
By Urška Kokelj on 20/06/2019This blog post will address the topic of shoulder mobility both in athletes as well as the general population, whereby shoulder mobility will be addressed in light of its close association with breathing mechanics and thoracic mobility.
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Strength Training Manual: Exercises – Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/06/2019In this part, I will continue the discussion on exercise classification and introduce the slot concept, functional units, and very useful conversion tables and matrix. Conversion matrix is very useful heuristic tool to figure out approximate 1RM of the assistance exercises.
