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Rethinking Performance Training & Agile Periodization – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/02/2019In the following video series I will share my current philosophy of performance training and Agile Periodization. The first episode deals with the concepts of Quality, Rate Limiters, Interventions and three levels of analysis: phenomenological, performance and physiological.
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Balancing Physical & Tactical Load in Soccer: A Holistic Approach – Part 3
By Efthymios Kyprianou on 07/12/2018In the third and last part of this article series, we will outline and elaborate on the most essential aspects each professional must consider, when designing a weekly plan.
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Balancing Physical & Tactical Load in Soccer: A Holistic Approach – Part 2
By Efthymios Kyprianou on 03/11/2018Sometimes, coaches tend to overcomplicate their work with fancy equipment and ideas but in the end, they forget their initial target. Coaches should know their strengths and weaknesses and adjust their philosophy way of playing according to the team they are working with.
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Balancing Physical & Tactical Load in Soccer: A Holistic Approach – Part 1
By Efthymios Kyprianou on 07/10/2018Efthymios Kyprianou and Francesco Farioli wrote exceptional artical for coaches working in soccer or any other team sport. This artical is outstanding resource for every coach out there willing to understand working and planning in team sports from holistic (systemic) viewpoint.
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Planning The In-season Microcycle In Soccer Part 9: Revisiting ‘Physical Themes Derived From Tactical Periodisation’
By Hamish Munro on 24/07/2018Reflection has often (but by no means always) been overlooked and underutilised within the strength and conditioning, sport science and performance enhancement arena. When reflecting back on the presentation I published on our 2015/2016 in-season setup, many things have changed while many haven’t – as is the way in performance enhancement.
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Phase Potentiation Is Probably Overrated and Here Is Why
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/06/2018Phase potentiation is a fancy way of saying that the order of training blocks (phases) matter, in terms of training effect. This principle is pretty much the basis behind periodization (e.g. Bompa’s periodization), especially the Block Periodization Concept, by Vladimir Issurin.
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HIT Conditioning: Planning Strategies – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/04/2018In the first part of Planning Strategies topic, I will focus on introduction to the Planning Strategies, Heuristics and Uncertainty and 3 types of analysis.
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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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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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Why The Concept of Biomotor Abilities is Bullshit
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/01/2018In my opinion, biomotor abilities are ‘dimension reduction’ of the complex perceptual-motor space. Suppose we perform 500 various tests of performance for at least 5000 athletes.
