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Planning Strength Training for Clients With Fuckarounditis – Part 3
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/03/2019In this third and final video of the series I am continuing a discussion on divisible and un-divisible approaches to planning and finishing the discussion on strategies for internal fuckarounditis by covering modifications of the last phase in strength training cycle - rinse and repeat phase.
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Planning Strength Training for Clients With Fuckarounditis – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 05/01/2019As strength and conditioning coach or personal trainer, how do you deal with clients that have very unpredictable schedule or have huge need for variation in training? In this video series, I will show you few strategies that can help you in dealing with such clients while avoiding the common pitfalls.
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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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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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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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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).