My plan of "attack" and what I have learned so far - HTH!
Hello,
I am not sure what the plyo test is - I have not yet previewed that set of videos. I am not sure we would test those, but likeI said, I did not get that far.
I had surgery at the end of December and I had to recover all of January. I realized I had to retest the 1 RMs since I had not lifted in over a month. My second challenge is that I have to take these workouts to the gym since I cannot workout at home. I have to write everything down and carry my list and make my notes as I go. So I decided to wait for STS to arrive to see what exactly I needed to do. The rep counts vary etc and I was not quite sure what some of the exercises are.
I printed out the workout cards for the first mesocycle. I previewed each disc and made my notes. I also made a list of the exercises I needed to test and I added a few that I needed to try out because I have never done them before. I started this last week, but I had to take a few days off for some other things. I continued on Monday.
I have been using the 1 RM testing as a workout in itself. Today I have a full body w/o planned, which will finish out the last few exercises I need to test. I will have the frist mesocycle completed.
The nice thing is that once you enter in your 1 RM results for a particular disc, the remaning discs' w/o cards will popluate for that respective exercise. I have noticed a few spots where this has not been the case though. I have some database experience and my guess this happens when the same exact exercise on different videos is labeled differently on the w/o cards. The fields are then unable to link which would cause the information to popluate one exericse and not the other.
My solution for that issue was to go to the 1 RM test entry area and search for the exercise by muscle group. Here it lists every exercise for a muscle group and I can find the different label for the exercise and then just plug in the same numbers and still get the accurate 1 RM results.
Sorry - I am a bit of a techno-nerd and I was always a troubleshooter in my career lol!
Yes, it has taken me a bit of time, butI believe it will be well worth it. I don't think you will need to do everything I have done b/c you workout at home and can follow along. I would suggest just previewing a disc the day before you do it. This way you will know what to expect and you can have a seamless workout.
I also found that the first 2 weeks of discs pretty much contain all the exercises I needed to test (at least for meso 1, I have not previewed meso 2 or 3 yet). Judging by my results this testing is well worth it. You will get the right weight to use to get the best results b/c you will actually be challenging your muscles correctly. I have done periodization workouts before, but not like this. This is better.
Sorry that was long, but I hope that helps.
STS is scaring me in a good way. 
