The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution
First 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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Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6
I 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 i…
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 5: Do we need this complexity
What’s the point behind using START and STOP velocities to prescribe strength training instead of using percentages and reps (or rep ranges) and even RPE system? Is the complexity worth it? What do we gain?
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile
In the previous installment we dealt with creation of individualized rep-max profile. In this part we will deal with one concept that I like to call Velocity/Exertion.
I am pretty sure NO ONE has ever written about it b…
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile
In the previous installment we dealt with analysis of progressive 1RM test, and we got Load/Velocity profile. One thing that is important from Load/Velocity profile, from velocity-based strength training standpoint is MV…
Idealism vs. Pragmatism in Coaching/Managing
I was huge believer in this Chinese “Teach a man to fish” proverb. Until I actually coaching team sports.
How to create individualized exercise profile in strength training? Part 2: Load/Velocity Profile
I am repeating the data from the previous part before I start with the analysis and visualization. As you can see my 1RM in bench press with ~2-sec pause is 117.5kg and Ivan’s is 140kg.
How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training – Part 1: Testing
When it comes to traditional strength training prescription (a.k.a percent based approach) one uses his latest 1RMs and prescribe 3 to 4, or longer strength training cycle using percentages and reps (e.g. Week1: 5×5 w/8…
Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 4: Thoughts on Recovery “Mini-Block”
I 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 prev…
Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important?
Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important? The following paragraph is take from Wikipedia “Anscombe’s quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple statistical propert…