FLEX
126 MUSCLE & FITNESS / AUGUST 2019
Everybody has a contest prep guru or coach nowadays.
You are constantly force-fed that someone needs
to be getting you out of bed and walking you to the
kitchen for your early morning protein and carbs meal
or placing you on a treadmill for fasted cardio at 5am
before tucking you back into bed at night or you can’t
possibly ever succeed. Sounds ridiculous right? Not if
that man is Miloš Šarčev!He popularised the term ‘contest preparation guru’
by being one of the first, and (arguably) best! He
has prepared a ridiculously high level of competitors
for numerous top IFBB competitions. The list which
follows reads like a hall of fame call sheet: Mr. Olympia
finalists, like: Nasser El Sonbaty, Flex Wheeler, James
‘Flex’ Lewis, Chris Cormier, Gustavo Badell, Dennis
Wolf, Dennis James, Troy Alves, Sonny Schmidt,
Richard Jones, Hidetada Yamagishi, Silvio Samuel,
Tarek El Setouhi, Joel Stubbs, Luke Wood, Ben
Pakulski, Kris Dim, Marius Dohne, Johnnie Jackson,
King Kamali, Mustafa Mohammed, Alfonso Del Rio,
Jari Mentula, Armin Scholz, Manuel Manchado,
Ahmad Ahmad, Eddie Abbew, Ed van Amsterdam
and so many more.Before all that though, Miloš was always known for
his excellent muscular proportion, aesthetic shape,
balance, symmetry and conditioning (something that
many would argue is missing from today’s stages,
in fact!). His presence on stage was one of perfection
and detail. His posing routines were deep in the vein
of Ed Corney (former IFBB pro), full of smooth
transitions and artistic poses. On today’s stages
there is more of an emphasis on mass, sheer
size, and bass thumping soundtracks to which the
competitors shake, strain and contort themselves to!THE TRAINING BEHIND
THE LEGEND
Miloš’ training routines and techniques have always
been all about maximum stimulation of muscle fibres
whilst utilising a wide variety of different training
techniques, angles, grips, stances, range of motion,
tempo...etc. basically everything you or I should be
practising every time we wage war with the iron!These routines and strategies consist of three major
groups of movements.- Compound exercises performed explosively and
with heavy weight. - Exercises with moderate weight and sets in the
8-12 repetition protocol.
3. Multi-exercise sets that are performed one exercise
after another with as little rest in-between sets as possible.
These exercises stimulate type 1 slow twitch muscle
fibres and type 2 a and b fast twitch muscle fibres.
He was also a pioneer of the intake of specific
nutritional sport supplements pre, during and post
training! All based on his ‘HYPEREMIA ADVANTAGE
PRINCIPLE TRAINING PRINCIPLES’ (designed to allow
a maximum increase of blood flow to the working
muscles during the training).His world class training routines have also been
featured on Bodybuilding.com’s Fit Show. He
successfully launched his ‘Miloš Šarčev’s Signature Line –
International Line of Supplements’ which he sold from
his website- http://www.milossarcev.com. These were class
leading products designed with the ultimate results in
the minimal amount of time in mind. If you’re serious
about your training and you train seriously, you need
to supplement correctly! Miloš created these
brands with that exact thought process!