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Four Important Complementary Pairs

Four Important Complementary Pairs I believe that there are four important complementary aspects in training (and performance) theory (and reality). Understanding these four aspects can yield many dividends in your train…

Mladen Jovanović January 15, 2015

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Tactical Periodization: Interview With Two of My Colleagues

Tactical periodization is currently the hot topic of the most team sports periodization (planning) talks and discussions. I think it has a lot to offer as the anti-dote to the traditional motor-abilities and physiology-b…

Mladen Jovanović December 12, 2014

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Training Load Monitoring – Seeing the Big Picture

I already mentioned it in the introduction, but basically we have three components: training load and reaction to that load, where current state and context moderates the interaction between the two.

Mladen Jovanović December 6, 2014

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The single most important thing to improve your “gainz” in the gym

Apparently people love clicking on posts entitled like this one: “The best exercises you are not doing”, “Five ways to beach body”, “Six new diets to make you lean” and so forth. I just hate those dumb articl…

Mladen Jovanović November 18, 2014

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Banister Impulse~Response Model in R – Part 1

Banister Impulse~Response Model in R Before you start reading this post, please read EXCELLENT paper by Clark and Skiba, especially on the topic of Banister impulse-response model. I decided to write code in R, but also …

Mladen Jovanović October 14, 2014

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Talent Explained

I believe that most talent ID and development programs are waste of money and maybe counterproductive in actually developing the talent. The general idea of talent ID is flawed: what we are trying to do is to identify th…

Mladen Jovanović October 1, 2014

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Importance of Context in Evaluating Wellness Questionnaires

In the previous post I’ve shared the novel idea on how to ‘aggregate’ wellness categories into positive/negative wellness score.

Mladen Jovanović September 24, 2014

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How to Adjust Generic %1RM Table for Higher Reps With Lower Body Lifts?

It is pretty common to use generic %1RM tables when prescribing weight training, both for upper body and lower body movements. As with everything, there are pros and cons of such an approach...

Mladen Jovanović September 7, 2014

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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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Tag: Theory

Four Important Complementary Pairs

Tactical Periodization: Interview With Two of My Colleagues

Training Load Monitoring – Seeing the Big Picture

The single most important thing to improve your “gainz” in the gym

Banister Impulse~Response Model in R – Part 1

Talent Explained

Importance of Context in Evaluating Wellness Questionnaires

How to Adjust Generic %1RM Table for Higher Reps With Lower Body Lifts?

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

Individualization of training – are you doing it right?

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