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24/01/2014
Sport-Specific or “Culture-Specific”?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 24/01/2014Recently a friend of mine and a fellow physical preparation coach, who was working with futsal and was preparing Olympic level Judokas, got an offer to take care of a pro basketball team. Since I was the one recommending him to the agent, I was questioned would he be a good fit, taking into account his lack of experience…
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13/01/2014
Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 13/01/2014The article will be published in two parts. Part one deals more with terminology and something that I call ‘intensity trinity’. I hope that this terminology will become standard in our field/industry.
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08/01/2014
Training Periodization, Sprinting, Tempo, Charlie Francis, Technology and Much More [Discussion]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/01/2014This is the discussion that emerged on my Facebook wall after my post on Stephen Seiler presentation for INSEP regarding the MENAGEMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TRAINING INTENSITY: THE POLARIZED MODEL and my suggestion for similar observation and experiment to Mike Tuchscherer involving powerlifters instead of endurance runners.
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19/11/2013
Understanding Inferential Statistics Using Correlation Example
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/11/2013In the following R and knitr experiment/blog post I will be documenting my play with correlation and inferences. I am just reading Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Field and I am trying to code some staff from the book, plus experiment and see how inferential statistics work.
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25/10/2013
Differences Between Locomotor Profile in Running and Biking,or Power vs Velocity Profiling
By Mladen Jovanovic on 25/10/2013Differences Between Locomotor Profile in Running and Biking, or Power vs Velocity Profiling I am playing with Metabolic Power data estimates and I come to one interesting and confusing “finding” and I want to ask for an opinion and/or direction on this. Locomotor profile (see slides from Martin Buchheit) is basically MAS and MSS, or Maximal Aerobic Speed and...
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25/09/2013
Intensity-Effort Table for Strength Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 25/09/2013Continuing on my rant on three parameters of intensity in strength training I decided to update my Percent-Repetition Chart from August, 2012 that seems to be quite popular (I have seen it in couple of blogs and some recent books – I don’t mind – au contraire – I feel pride).
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23/09/2013
Three I’s of Intensity in Strength Training
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/09/2013Coaches, and especially researchers should take into account all three parts of prescribing and quantifying Intensity (Intensity together with Volume provide LOAD; but I will leave different ways of quantifying Volume for another rant) to avoid confusion and provide precision. This could be done with monitoring velocity of the lifts as well and I urge researchers reading this to...
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17/09/2013
UPDATE: Percent-based to velocity-based converter 2.0
By Mladen Jovanovic on 17/09/2013I have updated Percent-based to velocity-based converter to include conversion from velocity-based to percent-based approach using load-velocity profile and %1RM-max reps profile. This is important since it allows coaches to get easier ‘grip’ on velocity-based approach and how it could be used and converted.Here is the screen shot
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03/09/2013
Percent-Based to Velocity-Based Converter 2.0 [Excel Workbook + Video Tutorial]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 03/09/2013“Nothing Is More Practical Than A Good Theory” – In the following video I am explaining how to use Excel converter to convert percent-based programs to velocity-based programs based on lifters load-velocity profile for a given movement.
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02/09/2013
How to Track 1RM Without Actually Testing It?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/09/2013Introduction – There are two main methods for estimating 1RM of an exercise: (1) to build up to true 1RM lift and (2) to estimate 1RM from reps-to-(technical)-failure with sub-max weight using various formulas and tables.