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.
Author: Mladen Jovanović
Mladen Jovanovic is a physical preparation coach from Belgrade, Serbia, grew up in Pula, Croatia (which he considers his home town). He was involved in physical preparation of professional, amateur and recreational athletes of various ages in sports such as basketball, soccer, volleyball, martial arts and tennis.
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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.
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Strength Training – Where to start?
When it comes to strength training, I have a few books I can recommend. These are by no means ‘beginner’ books. Au contraire – they are great source of practical knowledge.
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?
How to Analyze Training Load and Monitoring Data?
In this video I am explaining two methods to deal with missing values and why you should pay attention to the way you are aggregating data (daily, team averages, body soreness, etc).
Mike Boyle’s Complete Core
Coach Boyle takes you through his latest methods and proven conditioning protocols and breaks down this oftentimes-confusing topic. Complete Core dives deep into the training needs of athletes and lays out his blueprint …
Strength Training Categorization – Part 2: Categorization of Exercises
As is the case with the objectives, there are multiple ways to categorize strength exercises. For example, using “specificity” (similarity to the competition movement) as a criteria, we pretty much have (1) general a…
Strength Training Categorization – Part 1
As Jordan Peterson stated: “Categories are constructed in relationship to their functional significance”, categorization is not an exercise in futility, but rather helps us make better and faster decision (via inform…
Managing Teams With Trello
I am pretty certain that the first one to suggest using Trello (somewhere in 2013) was Jose Fernandez from Houston Astros. Jose is pretty much technology clairvoyant. Another person that directed me to use Paul Dijkstra …
