Bands are really easy to pack and carry when travelling as well.
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Good to hear! Bands are great for plan B workouts. What type of bands are you using? Having a hard time finding bands with enough resistance (though they have great bands at my gym).
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It’s called the “Mountain Dog pack”. They’re on the EliteFTS website. Just plug in “EliteFTS Mountain Dog bands” into Google and it should pull it up. The pack was put together by John Meadows and he has several videos of full workouts you can do with them on YouTube. The pack includes a wide array of resistance levels too pretty much cover you for any body part!
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I reply to myself here as I misread your previous post: The mountain dog band pack it is!
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Great choice! I can’t recommend them enough!
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Your fiancé is most likely a very fine and understanding person! 
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Yes indeed! She’s too good to me lol
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New update to my training, I have changed the structure of my strength work to Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 method. My assistance/accessories are still the same as they were in my created program, but I really like Jim’s progression method for the big lifts. My brother in law follows 5/3/1 and recommended Jim’s ebook to me, so I read it and it was just clicking with me. I’m on my second week now, The “threes week”.
5/3/1 is probably the most popular training method on this site, so it’s cool to see what the hype is about. If anyone is interested in my exact program I’m following currently with the 5/3/1 strength work, I’d be happy to share. Although I will probably soon start the Rest-Pause template from the book. Just wanted to give a quick update before bed. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Hi again, Dave!
Reminding myself that you continue trying out some great and approved programs.
So how is 5/3/1 feeling to you? How have you applied it? There seems to be a myriad of versions and alternate takes on it. Everone is praising it. Any cons?
Best of luck… Gains I mean!
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5/3/1 has been amazing so far. I’ve set several PR’s with it already! I like that it takes the guess work out of the main lifts. The assistance exercises done afterwards can basically be whatever you want, but I’m about to start the “Boring but Big Challenge”, which I’ll link. The challenge seems to have a nice blend of intensity for the main lifts, working your way up to one top set, and volume for the assistance lifts.
Thus far, I have been applying my own assistance template which has been effective and I’m currently on the “deload week” which feels much needed since I’ve just been pushing it to the limit nonstop since October.
5/3/1 seems to be a nice approach long-term since it has planned out methods of progression to evolve past plateaus by basically taking one step back to take three steps forward. I also like that you could seemingly blend the protocol with any other training method for the assistance work (Fortitude Muscle Rounds, DC Rest-Pause, 30-10-30, or any of the awesome templates Jim himself has devised, etc.). The base template is 4 days a week, but could definitely be reduced to 2 by combining Squat with Bench days and Deadlift with Overhead Press days then just get in some assistance work, or just go home from there depending on how much time you have.
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Eating a lot of food combined with the 5/3/1 program has been huge for me. I’m finally up to 200 pounds. I’ll include my picture from the end of my cut in April to 169 to my current state at 200 pounds.
30-10-30
Fortitude Training
Doggcrapp
Deep Water
5/3/1
These have been the methods I’ve used in chronological order during this bulking phase to add mass. I will continue this lean bulk for the foreseeable future. As well as 5/3/1 as my base template because it’s just so versatile and so effective.
April 2020, 169 Pounds
January 25 2021, 200 Pounds
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Outstanding progress!
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Good googly moogly 
That’s outstanding progress!!!
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Thanks man! Your advice on Deep Water and 5/3/1 has been huge for me. The super high volume of Deep Water really made me a much better lifter and those squat sets in particular made me mentally stronger. Super Squats is another one you’ve recommended to many that I really want to try. Thanks for all of the encouragement and sharing of knowledge!
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Why thank you so much! 
I appreciate that you’ve followed along with my inconsistent log for so long! The encouragement is definitely appreciated and motivating! Last year was the best year of my life on a personal level and in the gym and I hope 2022 is even better!
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Heck yea man! I’ve enjoyed following along!!
That’s awesome dude! Keep that positivity and momentum going! Looking forward to seeing a lean 240 next!
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More than happy to share dude, especially with someone putting it to such good use. You’re going to be huge.
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Wow! Amazing! Well done! Inspirational! I see your choice of a top bodybuilder (Casey Viator?) resurrected!
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That’s about the biggest compliment I could possibly receive. He and Reg Park are my two favorite physiques of all time. I really appreciate that man
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Today I began the Boring But Big Challenge! The workout went great, and it was legitimately a lot of fun. It felt good not going to failure on the final set to leave some in the tank for assistance work. I had an absolutely incredible pump by the end and am feeling excited as hell about this program in general!
BBB Challenge Day 1
Bench 185x5, 215x5, 255x5
Overhead Press 80 5x10
Db Rows 80 5x10
Db Curls 3x10
Overhead Db Tricep Extension 3x10
Face Pulls 3x10
Workout took about 35 minutes. I supersetted the last 3 movements, which helped things move along faster as well as giving me a gnarly pump. That’ll definitely be my strategy going forward on this. Post workout shake was 2 scoops of Mag 10.
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