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10/01/2011
8 Weeks Soccer Pre-Season Plan (Part 2)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 10/01/2011Speaking of goals, what are the goals of Physical Preparation training component? That’s easy, right? Improving performance and reducing injuries. But what is improved performance and how do we judge it? To answer that we would again need to take a look at three-level analysis system.
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08/01/2011
8 Weeks Soccer Pre-Season Plan (Part 1)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/01/2011Since the soccer is the most important secondary thing in Europe and pretty popular in Serbia (it is beyond me why, because we suck), and since I started working for the first time as physical preparation coach in soccer I decided to write down this 8-weeks pre-season template. I have also summed my work experience and preparation philosophy from…
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23/12/2010
MOTORIČKA ANALIZA ODBOJKAŠKE IGRE
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/12/2010Seminarski rad koji sam napisao negde u Aprilu 2010. godine pre nego sam napisao Planning and programming of training in sport games. Neki grafovi su posle modifikovani i dorađeni. U svakom slučaju naučio sam malo više o odbojci dok sam pisao ovaj rad. 1.0 UVOD Odbojka spada u grupu visoko-intenzivnih intermitentnih sportskih igara (engl. HIIE – High-Intensity Intermittent...
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15/11/2010
Is taking a false step a bad idea? ADDENDUM
By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/11/2010I just wanted to add one very dramatic example of context dependence of false step that cost my country entering the finals in Basketball World Championship in Turkey 2010. Since the Championship was held in Turkey, officials were biased. Anyway, starting from 5:22 in the video below, at the very end of this game Turkish player receives a ball close to...
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10/11/2010
Is Taking a False Step a Bad Idea?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 10/11/2010Coaches call it ‘false step‘ and preach that the first step when starting/accelerating should always be step forward. Lee Taft calls it “Plyo Step”. Although I have already covered some information on the plyo step in my final paper Training and Testing Agility in Sports I will share three supporting research papers that are supportive of plyo step.
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21/10/2010
Stability~Variability in Warm-up
By Mladen Jovanovic on 21/10/2010In short, the main purpose of the warm-up is to prepare the athletes for the main part of the workout. As late Charlie Francis used to say „Do whatever you need to warm-up“, which basically means don’t follow the dogmatic hypes and limit your options by saying negative or absolute claims, like „No to static stretching“.
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02/10/2010
Some Thoughts on Energy System Development for Team Sports
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/10/2010After reading the Methods of Endurance Training series, which are BTW excellent read, I would love to post my current opinion regarding usage of the same for the team sport athletes.
