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Shuttle Run Beep Test Improvement & New Test

Few days ago, I spoke with Cameron Josse, who is Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco’s Gym, regarding simple (or should I say, Minimum Viable Program – MVPr) endurance test for football athletes. I have direct…

Mladen Jovanović October 12, 2017

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Shuttle Run Beep Test with COD Corrections

What does this mean? It means that the score (maximum aerobic speed) reached in the COD corrected beep test can now be used in both long distance and shuttle based conditioning. The shuttle run beep tests so far didn’t…

Mladen Jovanović August 5, 2017

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Interview with Cristian Osgnach on Metabolic Power

I had the pleasure to interview Cristian Osgnach, who is one of the leading researchers and pioneers of Metabolic Power concept, as well as involved in GPEXE project, which is 20Hz GPS performance monitor & analytical sy…

Mladen Jovanović January 18, 2017

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Testing Endurance for Team Sport Athletes

There are numerous endurance tests that a strength and conditioning coach (S&C from now on) might use. So many that it is confusing which one to choose and why. For that reason, I decided to write this article: I want to…

Mladen Jovanović November 19, 2016

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6 Weeks Running Program for Soccer Players

I’ve designed a simple 6 weeks running program for soccer, something that you can use with your athletes on the break or have it in your toolbox and apply it if needed in the RTP protocols or as extra conditioning. To …

Mladen Jovanović September 8, 2016

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Interesting Videos on Moxy

Moxy Monitor is an oxygen muscle monitor that seems like an interesting technology that could be used to monitor training, but also get a glimpse into “bottle necks” of performance (which in my opinion is the goal of…

Mladen Jovanović November 11, 2015

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Battle Rope Drills & Progressions

When I was with Hammarby in 2012/2013 we decided to purchase battle ropes to workout the injured guys, or for some extra cross-training for reserves. Not sport-specific? Agree, but sometimes you need to perform non-speci…

Mladen Jovanović August 4, 2014

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Sport-Specific or “Culture-Specific”?

Recently a friend of mine and a fellow physical preparation coach, who was working with futsal and was preparing Olympic level Judokas, got an offer to take care of a pro basketball team. Since I was the one recommending…

Mladen Jovanović January 24, 2014

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Real-Time Fatigue Monitoring using Metabolic Power and CP/W’

Over the years there were couple of tries to monitor fatigue real-time in team sports, such as soccer. The most simple one was to use heart rate (HR) data and see if the players were getting tired by checking if the HR w…

Mladen Jovanović October 26, 2013

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Differences Between Locomotor Profile in Running and Biking,or Power vs Velocity Profiling

Differences Between Locomotor Profile in Running and Biking, or Power vs Velocity Profiling I am playing with Metabolic Power data estimates and I come to one interesting and confusing “finding” and I want to ask for…

Mladen Jovanović October 25, 2013

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Tag: ESD

Shuttle Run Beep Test Improvement & New Test

Shuttle Run Beep Test with COD Corrections

Interview with Cristian Osgnach on Metabolic Power

Testing Endurance for Team Sport Athletes

6 Weeks Running Program for Soccer Players

Interesting Videos on Moxy

Battle Rope Drills & Progressions

Sport-Specific or “Culture-Specific”?

Real-Time Fatigue Monitoring using Metabolic Power and CP/W’

Differences Between Locomotor Profile in Running and Biking,or Power vs Velocity Profiling

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