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24/03/2016
C.I.S.E.I. Principle and Medium-Long Distance Running
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/03/2016This is a very old forum post I made in 2006 at CharlieFrancis.com forum. Why I am reposting it? First of all to pull out old stuff under layers of dust, and second to show the difference between utilizing common “aerobic zones” versus using the competitive performance as a prescriptive system.
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11/11/2015
Interesting Videos on Moxy
By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/11/2015Moxy Monitor is an oxygen muscle monitor that seems like an interesting technology that could be used to monitor training, but also get a glimpse into “bottle necks” of performance (which in my opinion is the goal of “prescriptive” monitoring). So I think Moxy could be useful, although I never tried it and I am not sure how the…
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17/06/2015
Training Stress Balance: Adjusting the Training Load
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/06/2015This is a follow up on the recent posts regarding Training Stress Balance (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). In this post I discuss a way to adjust (cumulative) chronic training load using training monotony and ratio between Acute Training Load and Chronic Training Load.
I believe that this method should be used to provide some context for the training…
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02/08/2013
Measuring External Workload in Boxing Using Accelerometers
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/08/2013Measuring External Workload in Boxing Using Accelerometers Few years ago we had a pleasure of using MiniMax GPS devices (two of them) which we got for three months testing by courtesy of Catapult. I was amazed by the simplicity of it’s use and great software that comes with it – Sprint. I have been playing with normal features and...
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27/04/2013
Rant: Program Design Software and Some More…
By Mladen Jovanovic on 27/04/2013Rant: Program Design Software and Some More… I will be honest here: I F*CKING HATE PAPERWORK. My ultimate goal is to make things as simple as possible and to focus on the most important aspects of coaching (well, coaching) instead of losing precious time and energy on B.S. I have been using Excel extensively lately – from designing the...
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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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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.
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24/04/2012
The Best Review Article on Fatigue and My Application of It
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/04/2012Fatigue is a brain-derived emotion that regulates the exercise behavior to ensure the protection of whole body homeostasis.
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12/10/2010
Usage of Subjective Indicators in Monitoring and Programming of Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/10/2010Process of preparing the athletes for competitions can be considered complex adaptive system that can be further divided to (1) training, (2) competition and (3) recovery sub-systems.