Mladen Javonovic is a physical preparation coach from Belgrade, Serbia. He has held positions as a strength and conditioning coach and data scientist for Port Adelaid Football Club in Australia and as a football physiologist for Aspire Academy in Qatar. He is currently completing his PhD in Sports Science at the University of Belgrade.

Topics Covered:

1. How Machiavelli’s “The Prince” influenced Mladen’s coaching philosophy
2. Other philosophy-based books that have influenced Mladen’s approach to physical preparation
3. How Mladen determines when to prioritize macro level concepts vs. micro level ones to audit himself as a coach
4. How Mladen reconciles his respect for modeling, statistics, and data with his skepticism of scienticism and blind faith in quantification
5. Mladen’s thoughts on “injury prevention”
6. Explanatory vs. predictive statistical modeling
7. What evidenced based practice really is
8. Statistics resources for non-researchers

Links of Interest:

• Mladen’s website
• Mladen’s Twitter
• Uncertainty, Heuristics, and Injury Prediction
• Risk Savvy
• Data Smart
• Model Thinker

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