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Profiling Issues – Mind Your Target Variable
By Mladen Jovanovic on 30/05/2018This is VERY IMPORTANT concept and if you are doing any type of profiling, I urge you to watch this video.
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Bootstrap Magnitude Based Predictions (BMBP)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 20/05/2018There has been a lot of fuss regarding Magnitude Based Inference (MBI) lately, peaking with the recent article and video by Kristin Sainani. The originators of MBI, Will Hopkins and Alan Batterham, recently posted their commentary of the critiques at sportsci.org. With the video below I wanted to give my opinion, but also provide rationale for “novel” techniques, that...
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Variable Clustering and Archetypal Analysis
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/05/2018I believe that the following video and the accompanying R code and data set will be very useful to sport scientists out there and will teach them extremely pragmatic technique in data mining.
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HIIT Conditioning: Planning Strategies – Part 1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/04/2018In the first part of Planning Strategies topic, I will focus on introduction to the Planning Strategies, Heuristics and Uncertainty and 3 types of analysis.
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Force-Velocity Curves – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
By Kevin Kishna on 28/02/2018The force-velocity relationship is central to many theories of training, as well as in various practical approaches. For instance, in Zatsiorsky’s “Science and Practice of Strength Training” (1) — which, in my opinion, is one of the few Eastern European manuals that’s actually comprehensible by us ‘westerns’ — there is a pretty figure (see below) which shows that various...
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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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Why The Concept of Biomotor Abilities is Bullshit
By Mladen Jovanovic on 23/01/2018In my opinion, biomotor abilities are ‘dimension reduction’ of the complex perceptual-motor space. Suppose we perform 500 various tests of performance for at least 5000 athletes.
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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 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.