Monday rant...

I like 'Physical Preparation Specialist/Coach' better than 'Strength and Conditioning Coach' since it is more general/broader definition compared to the latter which rings a bell in my mind of a guy who makes people go to the gym and do 300 yard shuttles until puking.Physical Preparation is fundamental part of the athlete preparation on which all other preparation types build up (technical prep, tactical/decision making, strategy, mental/psychological,...

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Interview with David Tenney

I must admit that David has a really good timing. He must have developed it in his soccer career - I am just packing to get back to Serbia and his interview is a great way to finish this American Story for 2010.I've heard of David Tenney for the first time from my fellow coach and friend Joel Jamieson and I soon realized we share similar training philosophy. David raised a lot of eyebrows training-wise lately by critiquing too much...

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Is taking a false step a bad idea? ADDENDUM

I just wanted to add one very dramatic example of context dependence of false step that cost my country entering the finals in Basketball World Championship in Turkey 2010. Since the Championship was held in Turkey, officials were biased.Anyway, starting from 5:22 in the video below, at the very end of this game Turkish player receives a ball close to the sideline and start dribbling toward the basket, but as he accelerated he did false step (plyo-step) and evidently stepped outside of bounds and committed foul (which...

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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":Is the mentioned point stance  complete B.S., and should we correct this and punish the players for doing it?Although I have already covered some information on the plyo step in my final paper Training and Testing Agility in Sports (in Serbian language) I will share three supporting research...

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Sport Form

I decided to re-publish  this older article (which is actually a translation of the chapter from the book by my professor Vladimir Koprivica) from 2006 on Sport Form with minor changes due the fact that lately I've lost my writing mojo. This article was published on Power Development Inc, EliteFTS and Reactive Strength Training websites. I glanced through it and corrected some sentences...

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