Episode 214: Mladen Jovanović - HIIT training, unpredictability, and agile periodization

The Robbie Bourke Podcast

English - July 10, 2019 16:33 - 1 hour - 159 MB - ★★★★ - 35 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 213: Maggie Downie - Movement as medicine

Next Episode: Episode 215: Chris Korfist, Cal Dietz, and JL Holdsworth - Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR)

This episodes guest sees the reuturn of Mladen Jovanović from complementarytraining.net.

Mladen 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.

In his free time he trains Boxing/MMA and lift (sometimes heavy), along with reading about statistics and learning R programming language. Some consider him an Excel wizard. He is also interested in predictive analytics/machine learning.

Mladen was on the ATSW podcast back in episode 146.

On this episode Mladen and I discuss:

We talk about his HIIT Maunal
I ask Mladen why did he decide to write about HIT and agile periodization for his first book?
I ask Mladen to explain what the term satisfice
I ask Mladen to discuss Leonard Jimmie Savage's small world vs large world
I ask Mladen to outline his endurance map
I ask Mladen to explain what are maximum sprint speed (MSS), maximum aerobic speed (MAS), and the anaerobic speed reserve (ASR)
Mladen outlines what tests his likes to use to get an idea of an individuals MSS, MAS, and ASR
I ask Mladen to explain what is a sensitivity analysis
I ask Mladen what are the best way's to estimate an individuals MSS
I ask Mladen to discuss the different HIT methods outlined in the manual
I ask Mladen to outline his tempo running method and how he individualizes its prescription
I ask Mladen can you estimate an individuals 100m time from a flying 10?
I ask Mladen why total time of repeat sprints is a better indicator repeated-sprint-ability (RSA) than a fatigue drop index
I ask Mladen to discuss the importance of having heuristics when planning and organizing training to navigate uncertainty
I ask Mladen regarding the planning of training - What should be done? When should it done? How to minimize being wrong? Which are 3 concepts he outlines in his manual
I ask Mladen to discuss - Phenomenological analysis, mechanistic (or performance) analysis, and physiological analysis
Mladen and I discuss how principles from economics can be applied to planning the training process
Mladen outlines his 3 heuristics for planning training - 1). Make it simple, 2). Decrease the downside, 3). Increase the upside
I ask Mladen what fields outside of sports preparation did he research for the manual
I ask Mladen to discuss iterative planning vs up-front planning
Mladen and discuss "criteria-based" programming
I ask Mladen whats he reading?

Episode 214: Mladen Jovanović - HIIT training, unpredictability, and agile periodization

The Robbie Bourke Podcast

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