Prescribing Strength Training for Team Sports – Part 6

Mladen Jovanović November 12, 2023

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In this part, I will discuss microcycle and workout planning. Since it is a long discussion, I will break it into 3 videos covering the following topics:

Functional groups and Micro-Blocks
Robust planning, microdosing, and the barbell strategy
Modular approach

In this video, I will overview my approach to understanding microcycle planning for team sports by introducing the concept of functional groups and Micro-blocks, aiming to solve the team vs. individual conundrum.

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Mladen Jovanović

Mladen Jovanovic is a physical preparation coach from Belgrade, Serbia, grew up in Pula, Croatia (which he considers his home town). He was involved in physical preparation of professional, amateur and recreational athletes of various ages in sports such as basketball, soccer, volleyball, martial arts and tennis. Email | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook

Microcycle Planning for Team Sports

In this video I am covering the following concepts: 1) Top-Down versus Bottom-Up planning; 2) Functional Groups within the team; 3) Mini-Block and their variations; 4) Planning for micro-cycles of different length; 5) Distribution of Strength versus Weaknesses work; 6) Distribution of Individual versus Collective work; 7) …

Mladen Jovanović July 9, 2017

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Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans – Part 3

The 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…

Mladen Jovanović April 8, 2017

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HIT Manual: Example HIT Programs – Part 2

This is the second and the last part of the articles series about Example HIT programs. In the first part, I covered the entire Off–season program with examples of the workouts. The second part will be more based on the Pre–season and In–season HIT programs.

Mladen Jovanović August 29, 2018

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Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans – Part 6

To create a simple program and showcase on how to use the “puzzles” we will assume that we have 6 weeks of preparatory period and will model 4 weeks of competition period with 5 games. This is pretty realistic scenario.

Mladen Jovanović May 13, 2017

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