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26/04/2017
Anti-Glycolytic Training for Crossfit?
By Mladen Jovanovic on 26/04/2017I accidentally stumbled upon Strongfirst For Crossfit article, which I urge you to read. Without going into the study design, although I would love to recommend the author to try to make the same analysis using Magnitude-based approach and maybe split the athlete to low-, med- and high-level to see if there are differences in training effect, I wanted...
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22/04/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans [Part 4]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 22/04/2017Strengths/Weaknesses - The concept of strength and weaknesses is a bit abstract, but it can guide our decision making when planning out the micro-cycle. It is most frequently related to team tactics and game plan (strategy), but it can be applied to other training components/buckets (technical, physical, mental, etc) as well.
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15/04/2017
Concurrent Strategies in Strength Training – Part 3
By Mladen Jovanovic on 15/04/2017Different types of weekly progressions can be implemented, with or without the unload period. You can use a modified Poliquin accumulation/intensification scheme for ME and DUP for SE to name a few. You could also use narrow pyramids, waves, stages, or whatever crosses your mind that allows an increase in defined goals concurrently and avoids injury and overtraining.
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08/04/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans [Part 3]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 08/04/2017The dissection of the training week (microcycle) and distinction into recovery, loading and taper mini-blocks is of course artificial and represents a simple “jig” to be used to make decision making easier. In most cases we will use this simple model, but in some we need to realize it is only a model or a “jig” and we need...
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04/04/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans [Part 2]
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/04/2017After we have planned and scheduled for the recovery and taper mini-block, what is left we can use for loading mini-block. Depending on the duration of the microcycle, the loading mini-block can have different lengths, usually from 2-4 days. In the case where we have ...
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02/04/2017
Concurrent Strategies in Strength Training – Part2
By Mladen Jovanovic on 02/04/2017Priority lifts - Because we are going to differ between different exercise categories and give them priorities, I hope that calling this method priority lifts was a smart idea. If you think it is not, feel free to contact me and curse me.
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26/03/2017
Concurrent Strategies in Strength Training – Part1
By Mladen Jovanovic on 26/03/2017Concurrent training by definition means training for achieving multiple training goals at the same time. Concurrent training in iron game was made popular by Westside Barbell Club and Louie Simmons, who erroneously called it ’conjugate’ instead of concurrent. Synonyms with concurrent are parallel and mixed training.
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19/03/2017
Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans (Part 1)
By Mladen Jovanovic on 19/03/2017By the week plan term I do not necessary refer to the calendar week of 7 days, but to a period between two games, that can last from 3 to 14 days. Since we are usually dealing with varied competition schedule, we need to rely on couple of principles and heuristics when planning the week.
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07/03/2017
Uncertainty, Heuristics and Injury Prediction
By Mladen Jovanovic on 07/03/2017I was asked by Rod Whiteley and Nicol van Dyk to contribute to the Aspetar Journal targeted topic issue that just got released off the press. I tried to combine my knowledge of predictive analytics, machine learning, philosophy of science, heuristics and practical experience as coach & sport scientist into one article. Hopefully I managed to create readable narrative.
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04/02/2017
How to Collect Data From Your Athletes by Using FREE Tools
By Mladen Jovanovic on 04/02/2017In the video below I am showing you how to easily create survey, send it to the athletes and get their responses directly to Excel. No more paper, copy-pasting and wasting time.
