June 2014 - Complementary Training

Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6

I will jump straight to the case – with soccer players it is far more important to make them go regularly to the gym and to perform basic compound lifts than it is about some fancy exercises and set & rep schemes. It i…

Mladen Jovanović June 28, 2014

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How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 5: Do we need this complexity

What’s the point behind using START and STOP velocities to prescribe strength training instead of using percentages and reps (or rep ranges) and even RPE system? Is the complexity worth it? What do we gain?

Mladen Jovanović June 24, 2014

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How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile

In the previous installment we dealt with creation of individualized rep-max profile. In this part we will deal with one concept that I like to call Velocity/Exertion. I am pretty sure NO ONE has ever written about it b…

Mladen Jovanović June 20, 2014

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How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile

In the previous installment we dealt with analysis of progressive 1RM test, and we got Load/Velocity profile. One thing that is important from Load/Velocity profile, from velocity-based strength training standpoint is MV…

Mladen Jovanović June 16, 2014

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Idealism vs. Pragmatism in Coaching/Managing

I was huge believer in this Chinese “Teach a man to fish” proverb. Until I actually coaching team sports.

Mladen Jovanović June 13, 2014

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How to create individualized exercise profile in strength training? Part 2: Load/Velocity Profile

I am repeating the data from the previous part before I start with the analysis and visualization. As you can see my 1RM in bench press with ~2-sec pause is 117.5kg and Ivan’s is 140kg.

Mladen Jovanović June 12, 2014

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How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training – Part 1: Testing

When it comes to traditional strength training prescription (a.k.a percent based approach) one uses his latest 1RMs and prescribe 3 to 4, or longer strength training cycle using percentages and reps (e.g. Week1: 5×5 w/8…

Mladen Jovanović June 8, 2014

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Planning the In-Season Microcycle In Soccer Part 5: Planning the Competition Period in Soccer

In this article I have presented something that’s called “summated microcycle”, the solution I first read about in Total Soccer Fitness by Ian Jeffreys.

Mladen Jovanović June 4, 2014

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Month: June 2014

Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 6

How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 5: Do we need this complexity

How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 4: Velocity/Exertion Profile

How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training? Part 3: Rep-Max Profile

Idealism vs. Pragmatism in Coaching/Managing

How to create individualized exercise profile in strength training? Part 2: Load/Velocity Profile

How to Create Individualized Exercise Profile in Strength Training – Part 1: Testing

Planning the In-Season Microcycle In Soccer Part 5: Planning the Competition Period in Soccer

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