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Eleven lessons across four modules by John Lythe, who spent 13 years as a sport scientist with New Zealand’s national football and hockey teams and Olympic athletes, and has since built and managed software systems in elite sport. Collect data with Google Forms, combine multiple data streams into dashboards, build a collaborative monitoring system, and build a strength training template.
Efthymios Kyprianou’s 11-module course on integrating fitness and tactical preparation in soccer, built around one outcome: designing fitness drills from your own game model. Modules run 45 to 60 minutes, self-paced with lifetime access, covering player profiling, soccer-specific periodization, load management, drill design, warm-ups, and integrating strength and sprint work into the weekly plan, with expert insights from Darcy Norman, Martin Buchheit, Mladen Jovanović and others.
Four modules, 15 videos, around four hours in total, with R scripts and complete datasets included. Profiling models carry assumptions and issues that most people apply without understanding, so the course walks through the mechanical models, measurement protocols, optimization model and analysis in order. Demonstrated on the hex-bar jump and squat jump using GymAware and Flex units, with the analysis done in R using the open-source {vjsim} package.
Mike Tuchscherer’s 11-lesson course on mesocycle programming. Linear, undulating and block periodization plus a novel polarized approach, then strategy combinations, tapering for competition and hypertrophy considerations, with a dedicated lesson each for the squat, bench press and deadlift.
Mike Tuchscherer’s six-module course on microcycle programming. It starts with the training principles most programming skips, then moves through fatigue management, variation, periodization and auto-regulation, and how they work together in practice.
30+ videos by John Lythe. A must-watch for coaches, sports scientists, performance managers and analysts who want to stop fighting their spreadsheets.
Twenty-six self-paced lessons across six modules. Learn how to collect, prepare and interpret monitoring data, from data types, smoothing and missing values to practical workflows in Excel and in R with the {athletemonitoring} package, plus dashboards and dose-response models with {dorem}.
The only systematic approach in the industry to building your own percent-based strength system. Learn how to map %1RM to max reps, apply progression adjustments, plan vertically, and individualize prescriptions using testing and training-log data. Built around the free {STMr} R package, with an Excel template included.
Six lectures taking you from installing R and RStudio to vectors, subsetting, control flow and writing your own functions. Mladen calls learning R the best career decision he made in a decade. It is taught the harder way, as a programming language rather than a graphing script, which pays off once you move on to data wrangling and analysis.
Learn how to plan and manage in-season practice workloads for competitive readiness, sport-specific development and athlete availability.
Mladen’s Agile Periodization approach to strength training, built around a simple admission: training happens under uncertainty, so you plan iteratively and update as you go. Covers exercise classification and movement patterns, 1RM relationship tables for estimating loads on new exercises, the three components of intensity, and the Load-Exertion tables that sit behind percent-based prescription.
The practical half. Training dose and response, minimum effective and maximum tolerated dose, and the anatomy of a set and rep scheme from warm-up sets to plus sets. Then horizontal and vertical planning, with 14 progression methods worked out in full: plateau, step, waves, ladders, pyramids, light-heavy, clusters and rest-pause.
Where does the fitness coach’s work end and the football coach’s begin? Efthymios Kyprianou and Francesco Farioli answer that in three parts: we train as we play, covering the game model, tactical periodisation and designing drills around worst-case scenarios; build your own methodology, from structural organization to drill classification; and design your weekly plans, in four steps with a worked example. Theory and practice, with detailed graphs and videos.
Mladen’s practical manual for high-intensity interval training, from the Endurance Map and prescription corrections to Agile Periodization and complete off-season and pre-season program examples.
The latest generation of the HIT Builder from your first month. Enter athlete testing data, choose the interval method, and get individualized target velocities, distances and workable training groups from MAS, IFT or ASR, with corrections for starts, change of direction and shuttles. Version 3, developed by Đorđe Sekulić, adds saved session templates, planned-versus-completed tracking, athlete-level editing, printable velocity profiles and an editable library of 74 drills across eight methods.
Scott Kuehn’s system turns the most repeated part of your year into development time. Four blocks, three rotating sequences, planned progressions and video links for every movement.
A 42-page coaching manual plus an interactive app. Learn the decision framework, then turn player context into a specific recovery plan in under a minute.
Built by Vuk Stevanović, Head of Performance for the Russian Water Polo National Team. Enter each player’s MAS and MSS, and any set you write on the whiteboard becomes an individual target time for every athlete. Nine interval methods, season planning, attendance and injury logging, heart-rate imports with TRIMP, per-quarter match stats and workload flagging. Works fully offline.
Instead of rebuilding the same spreadsheet every time a new block starts, define your training structure once and reuse it across 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6-day templates. Built around buckets and slots, so you set your own exercise buckets for ballistic, grinding and conditioning work, then assign main, supplemental and assistance work with your preferred schemes. Eleven programs ready to print out of the box.
Printable workout cards in minutes, built from your own set and rep schemes, exercises and 1RM database. Ships with 200+ exercises and over 1,900 schemes already filled in. Individual cards for 2, 3, 4 and 6 days a week, plus group cards in 6×10 and 12×8 layouts.
Every coach starts the year with a plan. By week six the sessions have been rearranged, players have missed training, and nobody is looking at the plan anymore. Lean Annual Planner connects the season plan, the daily calendar and your monitoring in one file, so the drift is visible while you can still do something about it. Excel or Google Sheets, no accounts, no setup.
No more manual work. A unified system of 8 major HIT groups and 74 variations that organizes athletes into conditioning groups and defines running velocities and distances in a few clicks. Prescribe from MAS, ASR or IFT and let HIT Builder handle the math.
Implements corrections for changes of direction, which makes it usable for prescribing both long-distance and shuttle-based HIIT conditioning.
Everything a physical preparation coach or high-performance manager needs to plan the year: KPI tracking, sRPE-based training load, attendance, injury and illness records, all inside one annual planning system. Built-in visualization keeps the data in context and makes evaluation easier.
Individualized preparation programs for a full squad, built in minutes instead of the 30 minutes per player it usually takes. Includes 150+ preset programs and 225+ hyperlinked exercises for mobility, strength, rehab and activation, with clean PDF exports and video links for each athlete, plus a Player Report for the head coach.
An Excel implementation of the {STMr} R package. Play with different models and adjustments to build your own set and rep schemes, and estimate individual profiles from relative loads. It also does something no other tool in the industry does: estimates 1RMs directly from training log data.
A simple Excel template for creating and modifying movement patterns, exercises and prescription categories such as set-and-rep schemes.
A streamlined strength program built around the major weightlifting and strength lifts, designed to develop your training across all the key movements.
Over 1,350 exercises with video links, neatly organized in Excel. Lower body, upper body, trunk and core, jump, speed, mobility and stretch, conditioning and testing, each classified by equipment, pattern, movement, contraction type and body part. No more forgetting an exercise name, or hunting for a video to send an athlete.
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