Official Club Stuff New Strength Coach and Data Scientist - Mladen Jovanović heads high performance team

[No21sTightManPerm]

Hate to bring the neighbours into this for no apparent reason, but #lolbirdman

 

[Dylan8]

Liverpool fans won't be a fan of the name

Also obligatory Neighbours genius

 

[chiwigi]

Liverpool fans won't be a fan of the name

Also obligatory Neighbours genius

Liverpool fans are like Crows fans in that regard. Every signing is a scoop, every sacked coach is part of a masterplan.

 

[Powerstufff]

Players will have to get used to dodging flares at training.

 

[Steve Dore]

Players will have to get used to dodging flares at training.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Beauty, a big bad Serbian in charge of the weights room should finally see us bulking up after 10 years!!!!

Power freak 2008 do you know anything about this dude??

 

[bringbackbucky]

Why can't we just have both?

I'd gladly give up two first rounders for those two!

 

[1954]

Mladen `Vladimir ' Jovanovic, senf***ingsational.

 

[Steve Dore]

......
Mladen Jovanović

Anyone know much about him? Apparently he's "world class" ......

Complimentary Training
"I am a physical preparation coach from Belgrade, Serbia, grow up in Pula, Croatia (which I consider my home town). I 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 the free time I train Boxing/MMA and lift (sometimes heavy), along with reading about statistics and learning R programming language. Some consider me Excel wizard. Interested in predictive analytics/machine learning

I am currently working at Football Performance and Science department in ASPIRE Academy, Doha, Qatar as Performance Analyst/Football Physiologist/Data Scientist (I wish I know

). All views on this blog, are of course mine."

Does he know MMA? lol

".... In the free time I train Boxing/MMA ..."

 

[Andre]

Reading his blog and seeing he's using R and not just a few Excel functions, over the top of his Strength & Conditioning background has me pumped (come on Port start opening up pre-season days with fitness coaches for Platinum and above so it can be literally).

More excited about this then the Toumpas trade, and a close second to the Dixon one.

 

[charcolechaddy]

Mire information please, can he teach wrestling?

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Interview with the man in question

https://scienceofsportsperformance.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/interview-with-mladen-jovanovic/

That quote gets me genuinely excited!

 

[afl2004]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/10/20/serbian-fitness-guru-joins-afl-club-port

 

[DaTBird187]

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/10/20/serbian-fitness-guru-joins-afl-club-port

Haha I love it SBS. If the guy was Steve Bennett from Bolton or Mack Steele from Pittsburgh they wouldn't have reported it. Because it is Mladen the Terrible from Serbia it is big news.

I hope to hear Les Murray pronounce his name in due course.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Haha I love it SBS. If the guy was Steve Bennett from Bolton or Mack Steele from Pittsburgh they wouldn't have reported it. Because it is Mladen the Terrible from Serbia it is big news.

I hope to hear Les Murray pronounce his name in due course.

Or George Donikian

 

[DaTBird187]

That quote gets me genuinely excited!

Hopefully we have an up to date version of MS Office at the club.

 

[TheFVK]

MMA instructor by day, programmer by night.. Mladen is the reverse batman

 

[faquito]

Says he's from the Aspire Academy in Doha. Same place that Nick Poulos was at before going to the Crows.

#roovolutionMk2

I liked his answers in that interview. Excel, programming, weights, periodisation - ticks a lot of boxes.

 

[Phhht]

lift more weights, farkin

 

[Steve Dore]

Reading that interview it looks as if the guys are going to be in for a lot of Serious High Intensity Interval Training this pre-season.

 

[SgtSchulz]

Can we rename this thread

".... In the free time I train Boxing/MMA ..."

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Interview with the man in question
Mladen: I am lucky enough to say that the soccer culture in Sweden is a lot more different than back home (Serbia), especially when it comes to ‘real’ strength training. Still it is not even close to rugby, hockey or bundy (Swedes play this big-field hockey) when it comes to seriousness of strength training. I believe we need to work on educating coaches, managers and players on the importance of strength training. Using stories, backing them up with data might be a way to go, although it is hard to change a culture. Not impossible, but hard.

https://scienceofsportsperformance.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/interview-with-mladen-jovanovic/

So which non soccer players has he worked with???? I hope he is a driven Serbian type rather than a soccer type.

 

[PA88]

Will this guy have a grasp of the strength conditioning required of an AFL footballer?

 

[scoobydid]

That quote gets me genuinely excited!

What a great read! He definitely brings value to us.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Not only Jovanovic but Port has also brought in head physiotherapist Tim McGrath from an international rugby background and sports nutritionist Harry Routledge from Liverpool.

High performance specialist team joins Power

McGrath has held physiotherapy positions with various Rugby teams, including the Canberra Raiders, Sale Sharks, ACT Brumbies and the Australian Mens 7’s team and has most recently worked in a clinical setting.

Harry Routledge is a sports nutritionist and John Moore University student from Liverpool who’ll be completing his PHD while coming on board with the club.