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20/09/2014
Interesting Books on Soccer Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/09/2014I wanted to give you a quick heads up on a couple of interesting books on soccer training. I’ve got most of them and will read them all .
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16/09/2014
New Way to Calculate Wellness From Questionnaires
By Mladen Jovanovic on 16/09/2014In this video, I go over the usual problems of calculating total Wellness from different categories and I present a new way to calculate total wellness score that is more sensitive.
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31/08/2014
Atlético Madrid Circuit Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 31/08/2014But being big, successful, rich (and beautiful) by no means is a proof that someone knows what the hell are they doing (or as Nassim Taleb book would say don’t be “Fooled by Randomness”).
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27/07/2014
Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 7: Paraskevas Polychronopoulos Case Study
By Mladen Jovanovic on 27/07/2014Paraskevas Polychronopoulos is strength and conditioning coach from Greece where he works for an amateur team. He was kind enough to share his template.
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14/07/2014
Individualization of training – are you doing it right?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 14/07/2014You are probably familiar with ‘individualization principle’ in training theory that says that training should be individualized? The only problem is that most books/sources don’t necessarily goes into how to do it.
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03/07/2014
The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution
By Mladen Jovanovic on 03/07/2014First off let me be clear – I have never been involved in national team preparation. Nevertheless, I would like to pinpoint to some issues that I believe are troublesome.
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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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04/06/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle In Soccer Part 5: Planning the Competition Period in Soccer
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/06/2014In this article I have presented something that’s called “summated microcycle”, the solution I first read about in Total Soccer Fitness by Ian Jeffreys.
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30/05/2014
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 4: Thoughts on Recovery “Mini-Block”
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/05/2014I will use this installment to share some thought on “Recovery mini-block”, which is one of four parts of microcycle: recovery, load, taper and game. I will focus on starters (see concept of functional groups in previous installments: starters, bench, reserves) and focus on one game per week, although this discussion can expand to two games per week as...
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20/05/2014
Results of Athlete Management Software (AMS) Survey
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/05/2014Approximately a month ago I have emailed a lot of prominent coaches and sport scientists a survey form to rate their experience with AMS products and also rate/describe their needs. The goal of the survey was to improve the experience with AMS products by giving their manufactures some form of feedback, but also share common issues between the users....