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Strength Training Manual Spanish Edition

I am more than happy to announce that the Strength Training Manual (Volume One and Two) is now available in the Spanish language in paperback and Kindle format. The book can be ordered at any Amazon website (i.e., Amazon…

Mladen Jovanović July 24, 2021

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Strength Training Manual Paperback Edition

Happy to announce the paperback and Kindle edition of the Strength Training Manual, Volumes One and Two. It is soft-back, 500 pages, with more than 300+ figures and tables.

Mladen Jovanović February 24, 2020

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Review and Retrospective – Part 3

Review is about demonstrating the performance while comparing it to expected performance or outcome/performance goals or objectives. Retrospective is about understanding and improving the process underlying performance (…

Mladen Jovanović December 30, 2019

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Review and Retrospective – Part 2

Training dose and responses have been traditionally modelled and understood through the prism of Selye's GAS and Banister models. In this part you will learn another one that can be used to model 1RM in strength training…

Mladen Jovanović December 16, 2019

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Review and Retrospective – Part 1

What happens after finished strength training phase? How do we integrate feedback collected? What is bias/variance decomposition? Find out in the following article.

Mladen Jovanović December 7, 2019

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Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 6

Differentiating between progression and variation can become cumbersome. In this part, I tackle this problem with two novel concepts: vertical and horizontal planning. These two concepts make planning of the strength tra…

Mladen Jovanović November 16, 2019

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Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 5

This is probably my favorite part of the book. In it I am reviewing 12 archetypal set and rep schemes: Plateau, Step, Reverse Step, Ascending Wave, Descending Wave, Ascending Ladder, Descending Ladder, Traditional Pyrami…

Mladen Jovanović October 24, 2019

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Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 3

How do we aggregate the training dose? What are the pros and cons of different dose metrics? How do we predict 1RM from training data? What is “exertion load” metric, and why is it useful? How should the ballistic Lo…

Mladen Jovanović August 2, 2019

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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 …

Mladen Jovanović June 30, 2019

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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…

Mladen Jovanović June 11, 2019

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Strength Training Manual Spanish Edition

Strength Training Manual Paperback Edition

Review and Retrospective – Part 3

Review and Retrospective – Part 2

Review and Retrospective – Part 1

Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 6

Strength Training Manual: Planning – Part 5

Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 3

Strength Training Manual: Prescription – Part 1

Strength Training Manual: Exercises – Part 2

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