Individualizing Training Using Clustering Algorithms
The goal of this blog post is to present simple solution to “grouping” individuals based on their needs, characteristics and/or goals.
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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Minimum Viable Performance: Concept and Application in Training
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a concept from “Lean Startup” methodology. I believe it has a lot to offer to training problems, hence the change in the name to Minimum Viable Performance. I have already written abou…
What is Agility?
I have found a very interesting video on Sport Science Collective facebook page so I decided to share it with our readers.
Testing and Training Agility in Sports – Part 3
Technique of Running and Motion Direction Change - Running technique is crucial for the change of motion direction. More specifically, the slope of the body and low center of mass are essential in optimizing acceleration…
Undulating Programming with Strength Card Builder
In the previous video I explained differences between “traditional” and “undulating” approach to strength training planning. In this video I will show you how you can set it up in Strength Card Builder, which you…
Rotations Planner
Rotations Planner is a very simple tool for planning rotations in Australian Rules Football that could be modified to do similar job in sports that utilizes planned rotations (e.g. ice hockey).
Undulating Programming
In this video the following topics are covered: 1) The difference between “undulating periodization” and “undulating programming”; 2) The difference between variations and progressions (and similarities); 3) Diff…
Masked Relationships and Multicollinearity
In this video and R workbook I am “playing” with linear regression and I am trying to explain the concept of “controlling” for one variable (this is common in statistics, but I had hard time understanding it unti…
Testing and Training Agility in Sports – Part 2
Most coaches believe that different motor characteristics represent the “foundation” of agility, i.e. the change of direction speed, and therefore its improvement by training has positive effect on the change of dire…
[Playbook] Converting Just Jump to Smart Jump
Coaches and athletes sometime change measurement/testing equipment. The problem is that the estimates from different equipment might differ (and they usually do). There are couple of soutions to this problem...
