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Strength Training – Where to start?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 14/12/2017When it comes to strength training, I have a few books I can recommend. These are by no means ‘beginner’ books. Au contraire – they are great source of practical knowledge.
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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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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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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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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.
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Excellent Videos on Frans Bosch Speed, Power and Agility Drills
By Mladen Jovanovic on 03/10/2017One of the few books that really got me thinking (and rethinking) was Strength Training and Coordination by Frans Bosch. I highly recommend reading this book, even if you do not agree with the author. Read more here
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Novel Strength Metric: Video interview with Robert Frederick
By Mladen Jovanovic on 10/09/2017I stumbled on Robert Frederic by accident, probably through Facebook. So, after exchanging few messages with him, I decided to do a video interview and a Q&A regarding the “exertion load” metric, as well as his app. We have also touched a bit on Velocity Based Training concepts. Enjoy this video and please leave your comments and questions on...
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VBT, Heuristics and Prilepin
By Mladen Jovanovic on 26/08/2017In this video I am discussing few ideas regarding velocity based training (VBT): 1) Potential research in velocity based training (VBT) domain (which will most likely become my PhD thesis) regarding the exhaustion-velocity relationship; 2) The flaws of using % Drop in velocity when stopping a given set, as a way (or metric) that ensures the quality of the...
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Undulating Mixed Strength Program
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/08/2017This program represents “park bench” workout (see works by Dan John) and it is quite usable for someone putting the same emphasis on each exercise, while hitting wide rep ranges and avoiding boredom at the same time. Therefore, it is very usable for off-season “sporadic” workouts (someone who hits the gym 2-4 times per week in haphazard manner).
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Framework for Analyzing & Planning Strength Training: Progression vs Adaptation
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/07/2017I wanted to expand Framework for Analyzing & Planning Strength Training video with extra discussion on differences between progression and adaptation, which I also consider to be complementary pair, that are inter-related.
