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14/07/2014
Individualization of training – are you doing it right?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 14/07/2014You are probably familiar with ‘individualization principle’ in training theory that says that training should be individualized? The only problem is that most books/sources don’t necessarily goes into how to do it.
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06/07/2014
Couple Ideas to Make AMS Products Better
By Mladen Jovanovic on 06/07/2014Couple Ideas to Make AMS Products Better Here are couple of ideas/random thoughts to make Athlete Management Software (e.g SMARTABASE, EDGE10) better. AMS should be simple as possible. If one can’t use it, if it takes too much time to learn it, or it is not intuitive, then what’s the point? Bragging on how much you paid for it?...
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01/07/2014
What Are Biomotor Abilities?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 01/07/2014Do you know what are biomotor abilities? How did they ‘emerge’? The purpose of this video is to explain to you the ontology of biomotor abilities, the certain flaws of their use (The Root problem, buckets, periodization based on those qualities) and also provide statistical analysis in RStudio with simulated data using Factor Analysis and Hierarchical Clustering.
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24/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training Part 5
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/06/2014What’s the point behind using START and STOP velocities to prescribe strength training instead of using percentages and reps (or rep ranges) and even RPE system? Is the complexity worth it? What do we gain?
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20/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/06/2014In the previous installment we dealt with creation of individualized rep-max profile. In this part we will deal with one concept that I like to call Velocity/Exertion.
I am pretty sure NO ONE has ever written about it before – nor in books, nor in research papers, nor it online blogs and forums (if someone did, please correct me).
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16/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/06/2014In the previous installment we dealt with analysis of progressive 1RM test, and we got Load/Velocity profile. One thing that is important from Load/Velocity profile, from velocity-based strength training standpoint is MVT, or minimal velocity threshold, which seems to be pretty similar between athletes and ‘within’ athlete (i.e. over time for a single athlete).
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12/06/2014
How to create individualized exercise profile in strength training? Part 2: Load/Velocity Profile
By Mladen Jovanovic on 12/06/2014I am repeating the data from the previous part before I start with the analysis and visualization. As you can see my 1RM in bench press with ~2-sec pause is 117.5kg and Ivan’s is 140kg.
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08/06/2014
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training (Part 1): Testing
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/06/2014When it comes to traditional strength training prescription (a.k.a percent based approach) one uses his latest 1RMs and prescribe 3 to 4, or longer strength training cycle using percentages and reps (e.g. Week1: 5×5 w/80%, Week2: 5×5 w/82.5%, Week3: 5×5 w/85%).
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20/05/2014
Results of Athlete Management Software (AMS) Survey
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/05/2014Approximately a month ago I have emailed a lot of prominent coaches and sport scientists a survey form to rate their experience with AMS products and also rate/describe their needs. The goal of the survey was to improve the experience with AMS products by giving their manufactures some form of feedback, but also share common issues between the users....
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18/05/2014
Playbook: Exploring decathlon competition data. Part 2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 18/05/2014Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data Click HERE to read part 1 Clustering What we might be interested next is similarities between athletes, or in other words, which athletes have similar profiles. For that purpose we can use Hierarchical Clustering and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which we are going to cover later HCWard <- hclust(d = dist(decathlon.normal),...
