Strengths~Weaknesses
Strengths~Weaknesses Should athletes work on improving their weaknesses OR emphasizing their strengths in the training process? The answer to this question is of course it depends. The relationship between organism~envir…
Tag: Theory
Is Taking a False Step a Bad Idea?
Coaches call it ‘false step‘ and preach that the first step when starting/accelerating should always be step forward. Lee Taft calls it “Plyo Step”. Although I have already covered some information on the plyo st…
The Sport Form Phenomena
This article was published on Power Development Inc, EliteFTS and Reactive Strength Training websites. I glanced through it and corrected some sentences as much as I could, so please bear with bad English (this was wrote…
Stability~Variability in Warm-up
In short, the main purpose of the warm-up is to prepare the athletes for the main part of the workout. As late Charlie Francis used to say „Do whatever you need to warm-up“, which basically means don’t follow the d…
Usage of Subjective Indicators in Monitoring and Programming of Training
Process of preparing the athletes for competitions can be considered complex adaptive system that can be further divided to (1) training, (2) competition and (3) recovery sub-systems.
The Function of Muscles in the Human Body
In my opinion, and I may be wrong, muscles are flexible in terms of their function and can express different functions under certain context. This may be good thing and it may lead to dysfunctions and pain too. Anyway, t…
What the Heck Is Periodization Anyway?
I don’t watch TV. At least not in the amount I used to. I am not old either. Somewhat I feel that I should spend my time reading the stuff that interests me and watching more documentaries, which I do. Also, I need to …
Funkcija mišića u ljudskom telu
An older post from www.charliefrancis.com forum that I translated to Serbian in a form of a short article. I am probably going to translate it to English, but for now I am posting it for Serbian readers. The title is Mu…
Ratings of Perceived Exhaustion vs Ratings of Perceived Effort
Ratings of Perceived Exhaustion vs Ratings of Perceived Effort I was reading these two very short articles: Br J Sports Med. 2010 Jun 27. Sense of effort and other unpleasant sensations during exercise: clarifying concep…
Joint-By-Joint Approach and Warm-Up
The following ‘article’ was made during the June, 2010 while doing internship at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning (MBSC) in Woburn, MA. We had a homework of doing review of Joint-by-Joint and Warm-up DVDs by Mike…
