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24/08/2014
Better Than Bench Press?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/08/2014The worst upper body press exercises in my opinion is incline bench press. Here is my rationale.
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04/08/2014
Battle Rope Drills & Progressions
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/08/2014When I was with Hammarby in 2012/2013 we decided to purchase battle ropes to workout the injured guys, or for some extra cross-training for reserves. Not sport-specific? Agree, but sometimes you need to perform non-specific activities (e.g. with lower body injury) and plug them in a specific circuit, etc. Anyway, not a topic of today’s discussion.
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11/07/2014
How to load inverted row?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 11/07/2014I usually do the same setup for loaded ring push-ups (great exercise for upper body horizontal push btw), so I was wondering will this work. The key is to use higher box (bench won't work) and set up the rings a bit higher, with the goal of creating more space between you and the ground. It is also easier...
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08/07/2014
Blast from the past
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/07/2014Blast From the Past These are the two old articles I wrote in 2005 and 2006. Yes I know, time flies. The Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training was published on EliteFTS (I think couple of times) and was nominated for article of the year (have no clue what happened with that). Unfortunately, that article is lacking pictures...
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28/06/2014
Planning the in-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6: In-season Strength Training for Soccer
By Mladen Jovanovic on 28/06/2014I will jump straight to the case – with soccer players it is far more important to make them go regularly to the gym and to perform basic compound lifts than it is about some fancy exercises and set & rep schemes. It is about building habit, team culture and trust in the strength program.
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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%).
