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Long-term Athlete Development Model – Excellent video by José Afonso

We tend to think in “buckets”, and after recently reading Antidote by Oliver Burkeman, it might be because of our inherent fear of uncertainty and chaos. Great book to read as well. Reading more books on Psychology, …

Mladen Jovanović September 3, 2014

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Individualization of training – are you doing it right?

You are probably familiar with ‘individualization principle’ in training theory that says that training should be individualized? The only problem is that most books/sources don’t necessarily goes into how to do it…

Mladen Jovanović July 14, 2014

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Blast From the Past

Blast From the Past These are the two old articles I wrote in 2005 and 2006. Yes I know, time flies. The Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training was published on EliteFTS (I think couple of times) and w…

Mladen Jovanović July 8, 2014

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The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution

First off let me be clear – I have never been involved in national team preparation. Nevertheless, I would like to pinpoint to some issues that I believe are troublesome.

Mladen Jovanović July 3, 2014

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What Are Biomotor Abilities?

Do you know what are biomotor abilities? How did they ‘emerge’? The purpose of this video is to explain to you the ontology of biomotor abilities, the certain flaws of their use (The Root problem, buckets, periodizat…

Mladen Jovanović July 1, 2014

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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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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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Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 2

Overview of the process - As I have alluded to in the beginning of this article, training objectives will demand certain training parameters within which we can employ various progressions and variations, termed set and …

Mladen Jovanović February 28, 2014

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Sport-Specific or “Culture-Specific”?

Recently a friend of mine and a fellow physical preparation coach, who was working with futsal and was preparing Olympic level Judokas, got an offer to take care of a pro basketball team. Since I was the one recommending…

Mladen Jovanović January 24, 2014

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Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 1

The article will be published in two parts. Part one deals more with terminology and something that I call ‘intensity trinity’. I hope that this terminology will become standard in our field/industry.

Mladen Jovanović January 13, 2014

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Tag: Theory

Long-term Athlete Development Model – Excellent video by José Afonso

Individualization of training – are you doing it right?

Blast From the Past

The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution

What Are Biomotor Abilities?

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

Strength Training Reps and Sets Schemes

Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 2

Sport-Specific or “Culture-Specific”?

Set and Rep Schemes in Strength Training – Part 1

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