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27/03/2018
HIIT Conditioning: HIIT Drills – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 27/03/2018In this part, I will talk about the classification of HIT Drills and I will cover Long Intervals and Short Intervals in more detail.
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20/03/2018
HIIT Conditioning – What You Need To Know
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/03/2018HIT stands for High Intensity Training, and as any other training construct, it is hard to be precisely defined. I want the approach to HIT in this article series to be good enough, so it can be easily applied in practical settings and understandable by coaches.
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12/02/2018
How to Deal With Unpredictable Clients/Athletes (The Agile Way)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/02/2018I am sure that most of you encountered the following (frustrating) situation – you do your best to create custom workout for your client/athlete, and then they bail on you, skip the trainings or do the workouts in the order that suits them best (in their own opinion).
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07/02/2018
Strength Training: Planning The Training Block – Part 3
By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/02/2018Third part of ’Strength Training: Planning the Training Block’’ – in which I will touch on Horizontal vs vertical planning framework, as well as indivisible approach and explain how can you benefit from them.
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09/01/2018
Strength Training: Planning The Training Block – Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 09/01/2018In my opinion, there are two things that are important when it comes to set and rep schemes: modifications and classification (or types). Let’s cover each concept separately.
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26/12/2017
Strength Training: Planning the Training Block – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 26/12/2017It should be clear by now that for planning of the strength training cycle, we are using 1RMs as something that helps us with prescription, and not something to argue about until cows come home.
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30/11/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs (ADDENDUM)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/11/2017Imagine we have two athletes who weight 75kg and 100kg and they both perform 5 pull-ups with extra 20kg attached using dip belt. What is their 1RM?
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12/11/2017
Strength Training Categorization – Part 2: Categorization of Exercises
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/11/2017As is the case with the objectives, there are multiple ways to categorize strength exercises. For example, using “specificity” (similarity to the competition movement) as a criteria, we pretty much have (1) general and (2) specific exercises. Please note the “fuzzy” borders between them, which makes them more of a continuum, rather than discrete groups.
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05/11/2017
Strength Training Categorization – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 05/11/2017As Jordan Peterson stated: “Categories are constructed in relationship to their functional significance”, categorization is not an exercise in futility, but rather helps us make better and faster decision (via information reduction and simplification).
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16/10/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/10/2017Having established exercise 1RMs is of the utmost importance for programming and performing percent-based programs. Pretty much everything revolves around this performance metric.