Thank you! Yeah that’s true, I don’t have it on hand at the moment. It is the cheapest 12 week program on his site though at $99! I don’t know when his next sale is, if it’ll be Labor Day or Black Friday. I definitely don’t mind the investment, especially with us just crossing the 2 year anniversary of his passing. I’m happy to give support to his family!
I know what you mean man, talking Mountain Dog Training gets me super hyped as well! Even just planning the programming and getting fully invested in it!
I’m going to guess Black Friday, but you could certainly shoot Cris Edmonds a message on Instagram or Facebook. He’s super responsive. I’ll try to remember to ask later today, too.
I was way unfaithful to Odin Force, with all the traveling and feeling beat up, but I still love doing the programs!
Yeah Cris is a good dude! He’s an awesome dude to carry on the torch for John!
I think you would probably have a lot more love for Odin Force if your schedule had been a bit less hectic and had been able to really focus on recovery… also, what a brutal program to pair with your first crack at the 10k swing challenge! That’s insane that you pulled that off
Hey that aligned with your goals, so that was actually a smart way to handle it! The mark of a wise and experienced lifter is prioritizing primary goals first and scaling back in areas of training that are more secondary! My Grappling/wrestling/jiu jitsu has taken a major backseat to my Bodybuilding pursuits this year, and that’s fine. Getting as jacked as possible has been my primary goal!
This leg day was brutal. The garage was hot and I was sweating and breathing like, well, insert your choice analogy here! This is maybe not the most insane leg day I’ve ever done as the squat volume was beautifully low, but the intensity was very very high! My first time back with Barbell Hack squats since hurting my shoulder and my form was better than ever! No scraping my hamstrings this time! The 60 second Rest intervals kept me focused on my breathing and preparing for the following set rather than sitting around licking my wounds and wishing I was doing something else. This was a very fun Leg day. I think it taught me a lesson on how to handle my weights for squats on the higher volume sessions. @TrainForPain made a great point about this as well. Going to hit the mats tonight and tomorrow. So gotta refuel!
Hahaha I appreciate that my brother! The guns are definitely my strong point, but big arms have been the goal since I was a wee kid looking up to Mark McGwire and Brock Lesnar!
Fun fact: I wrestled briefly in college. Brock Lesnar was a heavyweight at the same time. A normal college heavyweight, at least back then, was like 220. Lesnar was a legit 275, jacked, and already famous (this is before the Internet was a big thing) for running around carrying sawed-off telephone poles on his back. I remember watching film and just being like “good luck” to the big dudes on the chance they ever ran into him (it didn’t impact me, so it was an academic curiousity)!
I can only imagine the feeling of being a standard college heavyweight back then, checking your bracket and seeing you’ve got Lesnar in the next round! Haha that would be soul crushing
Well Wrestling went amazingly tonight! Felt great to get to throw people around again! Took the day off from the weights. Next program: Program X by John Meadows starts Monday! Conjugate/Bodybuilding Hybrid to build a little extra strength on my big lifts! I’m super excited! I’ve peaked through the program a little bit and am very pleased! I will need to figure out a way to box squat, but if I could find a way to Machine Press in a garage gym, I can find a way to box squat! Also really looking forward to not be doing such a monstrous amount of volume and incorporating a lower frequency.
Odin Force has been such an amazing program that really pushes you to your limits with really awesome exercise selection to boot! I will definitely return to this one down the road. You definitely need to come correct with your recovery with this bad boy! It would also be perfect following up a lower volume program, because this one starts you low and escalates you to volume city before you know it! As an aside, I’ve gotten more jacked than I’ve ever been in my life following this program!
Got a quick arm workout in before partying with my wife and in-laws. Wanted this to be a low fatigue workout before I begin Program X with @TrainForPain and it was arms which is always a good choice before a pool party!
This was pulled from John’s “Build Your Own Workout” series, which I will boldly say is the single most underrated series in all of YouTube fitness. I’ve been wanting to some stuff from this series for a few years now, so it was really fun to finally try it out! Definitely the best arm pump I’ve had in a long, long time! I should’ve always had a dedicated arm day! Not to mention, this session was just damn fun!
Is your bench too high? Anywhere within a couple degrees of parallel is going to be fine for what we’re doing.
Totally agree. It’s kind of a diagnostic for me that I’m not putting in the requisite recovery efforts.
That’s awesome!
Right? He said they didn’t do well, which shocked me. Even the way it was set up, with the “choose your own adventure” style, was so clever it blew my mind.
It’s amazing how you can pretty much build your own Mountain Dog Training program for free from those videos. I’m shocked that those videos aren’t the most popular ones on his channel!
My bench may work. I’ve got a wooden bench that’s a little shorter that may be better for it, but I don’t know how well it’ll hold up to squatting on it haha! I’ll test both out and see which one is better
Began Program X today! Really really enjoyed this Leg session! The intensity was high with very short rest periods and it took me literally half the time that the Odin Force workouts did by the end! 45 minutes today, which was phenomenal. I left the gym with my legs feeling spent and sweating like crazy but I wasn’t completely crushed. The squat reps were all super fast. I really really enjoyed this method of squatting! I set my bench to a slight decline which allowed me to get to exactly parallel!
I made a little sketch at the bottom of my page today to commemorate my first session of Program X! Sadly I was sweating all over it so it kind of screwed it up, but I think you’ll get the idea!
