May 2014 - Complementary Training

Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 4: Thoughts on Recovery “Mini-Block”

I will use this installment to share some thought on “Recovery mini-block”, which is one of four parts of microcycle: recovery, load, taper and game. I will focus on starters (see concept of functional groups in prev…

Mladen Jovanović May 30, 2014

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Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important?

Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important? The following paragraph is take from Wikipedia “Anscombe’s quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple statistical propert…

Mladen Jovanović May 27, 2014

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Strength Training Reps and Sets Schemes

Regardless of your training objectives (increasing strength in specific lifts, increasing strength overall, bulking up, leaning out, rehabilitation, maintenance, etc), key training parameters (intensity, volume, frequenc…

Mladen Jovanović May 24, 2014

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Results of Athlete Management Software (AMS) Survey

Approximately a month ago I have emailed a lot of prominent coaches and sport scientists a survey form to rate their experience with AMS products and also rate/describe their needs. The goal of the survey was to improve…

Mladen Jovanović May 20, 2014

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Playbook: Exploring decathlon competition data – Part 2

Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data Click HERE to read part 1 Clustering What we might be interested next is similarities between athletes, or in other words, which athletes have similar profiles. For that p…

Mladen Jovanović May 18, 2014

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Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 3: Mick McDermott Case-Study

It is great that coaches started sharing their own case studies and I urge others to share their own experiences and solutions. I am more than glad to share Mick McDermott's solution to in-season microcycle organizationa…

Mladen Jovanović May 18, 2014

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Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data [Part 1]

Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data Data set Decathlon data set comes from FactoMineR package and represents two competitions: Decastar and Olympic Games. For this example we will explore only Olympic Games co…

Mladen Jovanović May 17, 2014

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Will Hopkins – A New View of Statistics (FREE PDF)

I believe that printing it out is a lot easier to read than reading on website, I asked professor Will Hopkins a permission to share it on Complementary Training. He have agreed to share it.

Mladen Jovanović May 15, 2014

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Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer (Part 2) – Mark Williams Case Study

A friend of mine from the UK, Mark Williams was more than kind to share some of his thoughts and practical solutions with me and the readers. I want to thank Mark for taking his time to write it down and share.

Mladen Jovanović May 14, 2014

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Podcast Interview for Pacey Performance with Robert Pacey

Couple of days ago I have been interviewed by fellow coach Robert Pacey for his website and we spoke mostly about periodization and management issues in team sports (soccer in particular). The latest post I did on Planni…

Mladen Jovanović May 13, 2014

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Month: May 2014

Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 4: Thoughts on Recovery “Mini-Block”

Stats Playbook: What is Anscombe’s Quartet and why is it important?

Strength Training Reps and Sets Schemes

Results of Athlete Management Software (AMS) Survey

Playbook: Exploring decathlon competition data – Part 2

Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer Part 3: Mick McDermott Case-Study

Playbook: Exploring Decathlon Competition Data [Part 1]

Will Hopkins – A New View of Statistics (FREE PDF)

Planning the In-Season Microcycle in Soccer (Part 2) – Mark Williams Case Study

Podcast Interview for Pacey Performance with Robert Pacey

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