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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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Increasing Sense of Control in Team Sports

I have blogged about this issue before and I really love how Charles Staley solved this paradox in strength training by prescribing compulsory and optional exercises in a workout. This provides enough of wiggle room for …

Mladen Jovanović January 22, 2014

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How to Visualize Test Change Scores for Coaches [Part 2]

To continue the previous How to visualize test change scores for coaches blogpost, here is another way to visualize individual change scores without falling for group averages. This way we can easily see individual ranks…

Mladen Jovanović December 26, 2013

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Quick correction in simulating Typical Error

I am awaiting review and opinions/critiques from statistics wizard Will Hopkins for my How to visualize test change scores for coaches, but even on his first look he pointed to one small error I did in simulating typical…

Mladen Jovanović November 12, 2013

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How to Visualize Test Change Scores for Coaches

Coaches are not interested in making inferences to a population, statistical significance, nor mean values (P<0.01). What they are interested are individual athletes, their reactions to training and what are practically …

Mladen Jovanović November 9, 2013

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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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Using Absolute vs. Relative Velocity Zones -Thoughts on GPS

Using Absolute vs. Relative Velocity Zones Suppose you are coaching two distance runners, one with MAS (Maximum Aerobic Speed) of 18km/h and one with MAS of 21 km/h. The former is definitely more aerobically fit and woul…

Mladen Jovanović September 1, 2013

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Optimizing Groups for Small Sided Games (SSGs)

In the following video I will show you how to: a) Calculate normal scores for any test/statistic (percentiles & z-scores) and the difference between them; b) Calculate composite scores using weighting factors and normal …

Mladen Jovanović August 23, 2013

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Naming the HIT Drills

I love the idea of naming certain drills/workouts (like Crossfit does using female names) because it is easier for the athlete to ‘personalize’ them and remember them. So, instead of saying we are going to do 30:30 i…

Mladen Jovanović August 14, 2013

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Individual Qualities vs Positional Demands

Individual Qualities vs Positional Demands One frequent question I get from coaches and try to resolve myself is whether the conditioning should be based on individual characteristics (MAS, YOYO, VMAX, etc) OR based on p…

Mladen Jovanović August 14, 2013

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Tag: Team Sports

Sport-Specific or “Culture-Specific”?

Increasing Sense of Control in Team Sports

How to Visualize Test Change Scores for Coaches [Part 2]

Quick correction in simulating Typical Error

How to Visualize Test Change Scores for Coaches

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

Using Absolute vs. Relative Velocity Zones -Thoughts on GPS

Optimizing Groups for Small Sided Games (SSGs)

Naming the HIT Drills

Individual Qualities vs Positional Demands

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