Judo is an Olympic sport and martial art, originated in Japan at the end of 19th century, but in Croatia it appeared in 1951, when Academic judo club Zagreb was founded. Today, it is considered one of the most popular martial arts and it counts large number of competitors in the whole world. For success in judo, it is necessary to put in a lot of work since the beginning, a lot of competitions and battles. To succeed, it is necessary to carefully plan training process. Planning and programming of the training is the most important part of a trainer's activity and his expert team, who are in charge for preparing the athlete. Planning of the training is a method which enables athletes to reach high training level and sport's performance. Right planning and programming of the training is bringing down accidental training and results to minimum, and reassures quality work and progressively lifting of the physical form. All of that brings to reduced number of the injuries, better progress and motivation for success. Judo is complex martial art which is a part of the extracurricular acyclic sports group. It has a lot of different, non standard ways of moving, which are all different in it's speed, direction and strength. Additional complication to planning and programming of the judo training gives that in judo there are seven different weight categories, in which athletes who compete have different morphological characteristics and different motor and functional abilities. One of the most important motor ability in judo is explosive strength. It is manifested in the speed of performance and throwing the opponent from the balance. Particularly in lower categories, we often see explosive athletes whose battles end up with attractive throwing of the opponent.