Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 2
In this part I will cover total system load vs. external load, how to compare individuals, percent-based approach to prescribing training loads as well as other prescription methods.
Rethinking Performance Training & Agile Periodization Part 5
In this final video I am covering applications to planning, or Agile Periodization concept, utilizing Nassim Taleb “Barbell Strategy”, heuristic approach by Gerd Gigerenzer, MVP ideas (Minimum-Viable-Performance and …
Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 1
Before diving deep into the planning section, it is important to understand the basis of the percent-based approach to strength training, particularly what these percentages are based upon, how to test 1RM and prescribe …
Shoulder Mobility
This blog post will address the topic of shoulder mobility both in athletes as well as the general population, whereby shoulder mobility will be addressed in light of its close association with breathing mechanics and th…
Strength Training Manual: Exercises – Part 2
In this part, I will continue the discussion on exercise classification and introduce the slot concept, functional units, and very useful conversion tables and matrix. Conversion matrix is very useful heuristic tool to f…
Strength Training Manual: Exercises – Part 1
What is the point of exercise classification? To impress girls with differentiating between exercises for the long and short head of the biceps muscle? To pass the biomechanics class exam? None of this, of course. The pu…
Training Chats with Israel and Mladen – Episode 7: Subjective Ratings of Effort, Exertion, Discomfort and Some
I was in the middle of writing the final chapters for my upcoming Strength Manual, and I was explaining Dose – Response models including the subjective ratings, when Israel Halperin sent me a draft version of his upcom…
Rethinking Performance Training & Agile Periodization Part 4
Starting with this part, I am showing how this can be applied using Agile Periodization framework. In this particular episode I am expanding on Cynefin model, Risk vs Uncertainty and three starting questions of Agile Per…
Capitalist Conditioning for Rugby – Part 1: Rugby Epistemocrat
In its most basic sense, Rugby is a full contact collision field sport that is essentially socially approved simulated tribal warfare. It is played with 15 players on each team and over 2 halves, each approximating 40min…
Strength Training Manual: Agile Periodization and Philosophy of Training
Agile Periodization is a planning framework that relies on decision making in uncertainty, rather than ideology, physiological and biomechanical constructs, and industrial age mechanistic approach to planning.
