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PhD - S&C Coach - SportSci - Data Analyst - Author - #ComplementaryTraining - #AgilePeriodization #HIITManual #StrengthTrainingManual #RStats #AthleteSR

Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Joined December 2011
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Mladen Jovanović
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Prof. Jason Vescovi inspired me to work on short sprint profiling, which led to my doctoral dissertation. I successfully defended it on May 21, 2024, at the University of Belgrade. Here is the video presentation of my thesis 👉
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Mladen Jovanović
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@markhumphries @blastnost None of this would happen if @GretaThunberg called the CLIMATE CHANGE HELPLINE instead for being angry 'we' took her childhood :) #FuckOffGreta #GretaThunberg
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Mladen Jovanović
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You spend a lot of time warming your athletes up rather than just tick a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies 👉
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@sweatscience I was struggling with all of this myself and decided to sit down and create Endurance Map - simplification used for orientation. Modified (updated) from the #HIITManual
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I... am... literally... dying.... 😂😂😂
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier.
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Mladen Jovanović
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I was thinking of writing a journal article about "Endurance Map" to help fellow coaches and sports scientists get more "oriented" with various "thresholds". Anyone fancy collaborating? @AndyBeetroot @stevemagness @StephenSeiler @felipe_mattioni @altini_marco @sweatscience
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Mladen Jovanović
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Working on a few figure ideas for the #StrengthTrainingManual Vol3. Any extra ideas?
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Tony Strudwick does a fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High-Performance culture and what is the role of sports science in it.
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Mladen Jovanović
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NEW PAPER (Video) - Data Preparation for Injury Prediction. Published at @SportPerfSciR . Take a look and let me know what you think. #Rstats #DataPreparation #SportScience #InjuryPrediction #MachineLearning #PredictiveAnalytics
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The best definition of "soccer fitness". Much beyond simplistic physiological/biomechanical models #sportscience
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You spend a lot of time warming your athletes up rather than just tick a box on making them sweaty. Learn how @scottkuehn88 systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies.
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier. You can find it here -
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Excellent videos on Bosch speed, power and agility drills. This is a must watch!
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier. You can find it here -
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Mladen Jovanović
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Haven't heard anything better in a long time. #SlowClap
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“We are going to kill ourselves because of stupidity”
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FREE: Analysis of Common Sport Science Problems Using Bootstrap Magnitude-Based Predictions (Part 1). Preprint at @SportRxiv . PLS RT! Looking forward to feedback #rstats @vamrhein @rlmcelreath @ChristophMolnar @dailyzad
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HELP: This is recovery questionnaire by Tim Rowland trying to motivate pro-active recovery by athletes by creating something similar to "gamification" where they need to get cca 40 points. Anyone design something similar? My motivation is explained here:
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier. You can find it here -
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Football Performance Workshop – Tony Strudwick does fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High Performance culture and what is the role of sport science in it.
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Awesome news everybody, John Lythe has decided to share his amazing course “Excel Tricks for S&C Coaches: Beginner to Advanced”. Stay tuned, Episode 1 will be published very soon! Find out more here -
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier. You can find it here -
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Mladen Jovanović
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"Imagine thinking you get better at stuff like this by doing the box squat in the gym" There, fixed it for ya
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Imagine thinking you get better at stuff like this by doing the mariachi through a ladder
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Strength Training Manual Volume 2 - Take your strength training planning to the whole new level. See how the Agile Periodization framework can help you write better and more robust strength training programs -
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Mladen Jovanović
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What are the essential aspects each professional must consider, when designing a weekly plan? What does every team competing in a match aim to accomplish? Find a practical example of a normal week. Day by day plan with graphs and videos.
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Mladen Jovanović
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What progression table are you using to help you prescribe strength training? Simple deductions in %1RMs? Relative Intensity chart? Prilepin? What is the rationale behind them? Interested in creating your own? Find out here:
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Mladen Jovanović
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You spend much time warming your athletes up rather than just ticking a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies 👉 #WarmUp
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Mladen Jovanović
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More and more #sportscience and #strengthandconditioning is about 'soft skills', 'culture', 'communication', 'equality'. Give me a fucking break - share your program, set and rep schemes, progression, favorite exercises, and warm-up drills. Cut the #progressive crap already.
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Mladen Jovanović
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You spend a lot of time warming your athletes up rather than just tick a box on making them sweaty. Learn how @scottkuehn88 systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies.
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Mladen Jovanović
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We are proudly presenting you John Lythe’s ''Excel Tricks for S&C Coaches: Beginner to Advanced’’. The course is organized into four modules that will help you perfect your excel. Today, we have prepared Module 1 -
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Mladen Jovanović
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My first PhD paper dealing with the reliability of @GymAware and @trainwithPUSH devices during the hex-bar deadlift. We have implemented "novel" estimators (using #bmbstats ). All out #Rstats code and data are available at OSF: #sportsci #sportscience
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One of those questions, but here it goes: if you could select only 3 weight exercises to hit the whole body (i.e, the biggest effect for strength-generalist in performance, robustness & looks), which would them be? Me: Power Clean, Weighted pull-ups, Weighted ring push-up You?
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Mladen Jovanović
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Research has shown that there is an association between training load and likelihood of suffering non-contact injuries. In this paper I have tried to predict non-contact hamstring injury by using two seasons day-to-day training load data. Read more here -
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Wake up 6am: - Straight to the shitter - Check Tinder - Check Instagram - Check Twitter - Read a book - 8am still on the shitter
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Ryan Holiday
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Here’s my morning routine: - Wake up around 6am - 3 mile walk with the kids - Journal for 15 minutes - Write for 3 hours - Don’t eat before 10am - Don’t touch phone for first 1 hour awake
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Percent-Repetition Chart - I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier. You can find it here -
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Designing a Weekly Plan in Soccer - What are the essential aspects each professional must consider, when designing a weekly plan? What does every team competing in a match aim to accomplish? Find a practical example of a normal week here -
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Warmup is, in my opinion, the most important part of the training session. First, it sets the stage for the main part of the workout, and secondly, it allows one to address the important components of the physical preparedness. Read more -
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Waaay more useful than “maximum effective dose” mumbo-jumbo crap out there in the wild. @dr_jump_uk does a great job of simplifying under opacity!
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Brace yourself - "evidence-based return to sport after #COVID19 pandemic" papers are coming!
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Mladen Jovanović
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This is BY FAR one of the best things I have read on performance #planning and it's fallacies. @simplysportssci
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Mladen Jovanović
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#AgilePeriodization Robust > Optimal, Iterative Planning, MVP....
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Tony Strudwick does fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High Performance culture and what is the role of sport science in it.
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Mladen Jovanović
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Is your transversus abdominis aligned with your Ajna Chakra? Is it?
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Tony Strudwick does fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High Performance culture and what is the role of sport science in it.
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Mladen Jovanović
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Get Corona-Virus-Home-Workout-Specialist ( #CVHWS ) certificate for just $799! DM for more info. Please RT!
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You spend much time warming your athletes up rather than just ticking a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies 👉 #WarmUp
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Mladen Jovanović
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Balancing Physical & Tactical Load in Soccer: A Holistic Approach (Part 2) - Build Your Own Training Methodolog. A fantastic article by Efthymios Kyprianou and Francesco Farioli!
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1: One of the tables from the upcoming manual. Red cells represent a “known” relationship between exercises’ 1RMs and all other cells are imputed using simulation in #rStats . What is this useful for?
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Optimal Physical Training of Muscle and Connective Tissue – Performance and Injury Prevention. This is a fantastic video by Keith Baar on tendon (and connective tissue in general) characteristics, training and nutritional supplements. A must watch!
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Strength Training Manual: Exercises (Part 2). Check the 'conversion tables'! Read the full article here -
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S&C coaches be like:
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Mladen Jovanović
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You spend much time warming your athletes up rather than just ticking a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies 👉 #WarmUp
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This is a fantastic video by Keith Baar on tendon (and connective tissue in general) characteristics, training and nutritional supplements. A must watch!
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I have collected all pages from the New View of Statistics website, put them into one Word document and did some basic editing with the aim of creating printable document. You can download it here -
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Top 10 Excel Tricks for Sport Science - This video is an excellent introduction to 10 essential skills if you are going to be working with excel in the field of sports. Highly recommend!
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EXCELLENT article by @Shaun_McLaren1
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Three must read papers for scientists/researchers. Thank me later. #science #inference #statistics #prediction
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This is still THE BEST article I've read: #SportScience @DrPhilipSkiba Got so many ideas from this one!
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This article has been one of, if not the toughest, things I have ever written. In it, I am outlining pretty much my overall philosophy of training, from goal setting to Hero's Journey. If you share my contrarian views, this will be a joy to read -
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Mladen Jovanović
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In this video Mike Boyle is showing you proper techniques for squatting. So, if you are working with an athlete who is not a good squatter, watch this video and make him into a great squatter.
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Football Performance Workshop – Tony Strudwick does fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High Performance culture and what is the role of sport science in it.
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Honestly, this is great. I cannot write "academic style" and this journal is "practitioners to practitioners", no BS writing. Looking to publish here more papers @SportPerfSciR
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Still working on this.... getting there :) Thoughts?
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table -
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Mladen Jovanović
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Evolution of strength coach: Level 1: Coach personal clients Level 2: Coach professional teams Level 3: Creates blog and online coaching Level 4: Learns R/Python, starts to analyze data Level 5: Sits home in underpants and creates coaching memes I think I've reached 5! Next?
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You spend a lot of time warming your athletes up rather than just tick a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies 👉
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@GuruAnaerobic a mediocre man at THAT sport, not a "population median man"....
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Mladen Jovanović
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In this video Mike Boyle is showing you proper techniques for squatting. So, if you are working with an athlete who is not a good squatter, watch this video and make him into a great squatter.
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Football Performance Workshop – Tony Strudwick does fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High Performance culture and what is the role of sport science in it.
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If you come out from this #COVID19 #Lockdown or #crisis without learned a new skill - you are a fucking imbecile.
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Mladen Jovanović
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There are numerous endurance tests that a S&C coach might use. So many that it is confusing which one to choose and why. For that reason, I decided to write this article: I want to outline my reasoning and rationale when selecting an endurance test.
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Tony Strudwick does a fantastic job in this video explaining what it takes to build High-Performance culture and what is the role of sports science in it.
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Even if I become "expert" in any field in my life, I would never be enough of a dick to put "expert" in front of my name. Anywhere
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Top10 Excel Tricks for Sport Science - This video is a excellent introduction to 10 essential skills if you are going to be working with excel in the field of sports. Highly recommend!
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Mladen Jovanović
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Who started these myths in the first place?!
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Tim Gabbett
6 years
NEW PAPER: Debunking the myths about training load, injury and performance: empirical evidence, hot topics and recommendations for practitioners. @BJSM_BMJ
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Mladen Jovanović
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Learning R is perhaps the best career and the professional decision you've ever made. R for the Sports Scientists: Fundamentals course will give you essential knowledge that will allow you to start coding in R and embrace the R journey much more quickly.
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"Once you have your own facility you care less about single vs. double leg exercises and more about if there is toilet paper in the shitter"
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What are the essential aspects each professional must consider when designing a weekly plan? What does every team competing in a match aim to accomplish? Find a practical example of a normal week. Day by day plan with graphs and videos -
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In the HIT Drills - Part 1, I focused on Long Intervals and Short Intervals. whereas in this article, I will cover the remaining three categories: Sprint Interval Training (SIT), Repeat Sprint Training (RST) and Intermittent Recovery. Read more here -
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Physical Preparation for Team Sports: Weekly Plans [Part 1] -
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This is a fantastic video by Keith Baar on the tendon (and connective tissue in general) characteristics, training and nutritional supplements. A must-watch!
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Mladen Jovanović
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NEW & FREE instructional paper (Video) - Data Preparation for Injury Prediction. #Rstats #DataPreparation #SportScience #InjuryPrediction #MachineLearning #PredictiveAnalytics
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All this #VBT mumbo-jumbo and we came back to #Prilepin recommendations. Slow clap for the advances in #SportScience .
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Mladen Jovanović
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Modern sport science method 1. Take the most complex phenomenon (sprinting, injury, team sport perf, etc) 2. Reduce it to a single metric (FVP, ACR, HSD) 3. Proclaim imagimary consensus 4. Demonise skepticism & phenomenological instincts as denial #sportsci #sportscience
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François Benoux
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Modern scientific method 1. Take the most complex phenomenon (climate, pandemic etc) 2. Reduce it to a single metric (CO2, ICU beds...) 3. Proclaim imaginary concensus 4. Demonise skepticism & survival instict as denial This time, for a vaccine not fully approved by FED.
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I have stumbled upon these two Instagram profiles that have a lot videos of "Bosch Drills" (or should I call them 'special strength' drills for speed and agility). These videos are great to get you started with this 'methodology' of strength training -
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Well, well.. Strength is a skill... who would have guessed ;)
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Lachlan James, PhD
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🚨New Article Alert🚨 There is no relationship between isometric (e.g., IMTP) and dynamic strength (e.g., 1-RM squat) changes following strength training
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Strength Training Manual: Exercises (Part 2). Check the conversion tables! Read the full article here -
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Talent ID is bullshit! There, I’ve said it. Not because there is no talent, but because we are unable to predict it.
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Hamstring Functioning During Running. Eccentric or Isometric? Excellent article by @BasVanHooren -
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Mladen Jovanović
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3 Safe Alternatives to Olympic Lifts - If you are not a good Olympic lifter, you are not allowed to do Olympic lifting in your gym, or you don’t have a proper equipment, in this video you will see three safe alternatives for this exercise.
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Excel Tricks for S&C Coaches: Beginner to Advanced - A must-watch course for all coaches, sport scientists, performance managers and analysts!
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Mladen Jovanović
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Another great and useful video in which Mike Boyle is talking about split squats and unilateral vs bilateral loading, as well as showing how to do each of them properly.
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Some Thoughts on Energy System Development for Team Sports -
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Using Excel to Create a Basic Athlete Load Monitoring Tool (Part 1) - Take a look at this video and learn how to get started with athlete load monitoring. It was primarily designed around team sports, but you can modify it and use it for anyone, really!
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The first draft of the #bmbstats book is finally done! This is open-source, so please be free to read, critique, contribute. #rstats #stats #sportsci #sportscience #bootstrap #statistics #free #book
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Looking for Warm-up Ideas? In this video Mike is showing some new thoughts on how to organize your warm-up.
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Mladen Jovanović
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@NAGlNl Call the police and let the police/courts deal with it. We have a legal system. No need to organize the mob to burn his house, lose job, etc.
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I have combined fine work by Cal Dietz, Dan Baker, Mike Tuchscherer and Prilepin into one table. This table made prescribing much easier. You can find it here -
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