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HIIT Conditioning – What You Need To Know

HIT stands for High Intensity Training, and as any other training construct, it is hard to be precisely defined. I want the approach to HIT in this article series to be good enough, so it can be easily applied in practic…

Mladen Jovanović March 20, 2018

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How to Deal With Unpredictable Clients/Athletes (The Agile Way)

I am sure that most of you encountered the following (frustrating) situation – you do your best to create custom workout for your client/athlete, and then they bail on you, skip the trainings or do the workouts in the …

Mladen Jovanović February 12, 2018

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Strength Training: Planning The Training Block – Part 3

Third part of ’Strength Training: Planning the Training Block’’ – in which I will touch on Horizontal vs vertical planning framework, as well as indivisible approach and explain how can you benefit from them.

Mladen Jovanović February 7, 2018

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Strength Training: Planning the Training Block – Part 2

In my opinion, there are two things that are important when it comes to set and rep schemes: modifications and classification (or types). Let’s cover each concept separately.

Mladen Jovanović January 9, 2018

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Strength Training: Planning the Training Block – Part 1

It should be clear by now that for planning of the strength training cycle, we are using 1RMs as something that helps us with prescription, and not something to argue about until cows come home.

Mladen Jovanović December 26, 2017

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Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs (ADDENDUM)

Imagine we have two athletes who weight 75kg and 100kg and they both perform 5 pull-ups with extra 20kg attached using dip belt. What is their 1RM?

Mladen Jovanović November 30, 2017

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Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs

Having established exercise 1RMs is of the utmost importance for programming and performing percent-based programs. Pretty much everything revolves around this performance metric.

Mladen Jovanović October 16, 2017

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Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Functional Groups

Without being able to come up with more appropriate name, functional groups relate to the current training status of the athlete (i.e. away, national team, injured, available, etc) and whether they played the previous ma…

Mladen Jovanović September 17, 2017

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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) Di…

Mladen Jovanović July 9, 2017

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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 scenar…

Mladen Jovanović May 13, 2017

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HIIT Conditioning – What You Need To Know

How to Deal With Unpredictable Clients/Athletes (The Agile Way)

Strength Training: Planning The Training Block – Part 3

Strength Training: Planning the Training Block – Part 2

Strength Training: Planning the Training Block – Part 1

Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs (ADDENDUM)

Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Establishing 1RMs

Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Functional Groups

Microcycle Planning for Team Sports

Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans – Part 6

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