Author archive for Mladen Jovanovic

Create Custom Set and Rep Schemes With {STMr} Set and Rep Schemes – Part 4: Excel In this video, I will demonstrate how you can build set and rep schemes using Set and Rep Scheme Builder. To find out more about this tool, click here. Unfortunately, it is not even close to the functionalities of the {STMr} package in...

Create Custom Set and Rep Schemes With {STMr} Set and Rep Schemes – Part 3: Modularity and Release There are thousands of set and rep schemes that you can generate, but most likely, you will stick to only a few. In addition to this, you can make schemes modular. This implies that you can combine multiple schemes into one...

Create Custom Set and Rep Schemes With {STMr} Set and Rep Schemes – Part 2: Archetypes In this video, I will review each archetypal set and rep scheme and provide different variations for each. In addition, I will also visualize using {STMr} how each of these schemes plays out when different vertical plans are utilized. Scheme archetypes: Plateau Step...

In Strength Training Manual, I have “identified” around 12 “archetypal” schemes and will cover them in this module as well. Also, I will focus on the “methodological” classification, although I will quickly cover other types of classifications.

Create Custom Set and Rep Schemes With {STMr} Vertical Planning – Part 3 In this video, I will show you how to use {STMr} vertical planning functions (start with vertical_) later in designing the set and rep schemes. About Mladen Jovanovic Mladen Jovanovic is a physical preparation coach from Belgrade, Serbia, grew up in Pula, Croatia (which he considers...

Create Custom Set and Rep Schemes With {STMr} Vertical Planning – Part 2 If you remember from the previous module: Progression tables represent implemented adjustments in a systematic and organized manner across progression steps and scheme volume types (intensive, normal, and extensive). So what progression table is to the adjustments method, vertical planning is to the progression table –...

Terminology in strength training prescription and planning is a chaotic state of affairs. My attempt (still ongoing), through the Agile Periodization framework, is to organize it in a more systematic and “phenomenological” way.