I’m sure this might be easy for someone to answer but I’d like to use this program, but I’m having difficulty figuring out the daily split. I prefer to workout at least 5 days a week. I was thinking at least 3 days a week for the program. I’d love to do it 4. Unless anyone has a good suggestion.
Do upper, lower, upper, lower. Add in one or 2 focused conditioning days a week like Sprints, longer runs, hard swimming laps.
I can’t believe that fighting skill isn’t one of the fundamentals. That blew me away.
Isn’t this about required fitness? That said, I completely agree with your comment. I remember being reasonably fit at a point in my life (did a 26km run and a 300km bike ride at an okay level). I went to a martial arts class and did some sparring and was gassed in 30 seconds lol
This is a quote from the article:
“There are 6 trainable qualities you need to possess to win a fight: strength, power, mobility, conditioning, injury resistance, and toughness.”
Now you can have all of those qualities in spades but get absolutely annihilated by someone who can actually fight. I was amazed the skill of fighting isn’t an important trainable quality!
Exactly! It comes back to sports specificity. You wanna be good at running? Than run. You wanna be good at benching? Than bench! You wanna be good at fighting? Than do broad jumps, OH Press and DB complexes… Wait what?
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Can’t train getting hit without some live sparring. Can’t train hitting stuff without hitting bags, pads, mitts. Can’t train groundwork without mat time.
Look at the full context. Shortly after that quote, it also says: “Has your training successfully delivered on the above qualities? If not, you may need to drastically change your methods. You need a program designed for what I call barbell savagery.”
So it’s addressing the strength & conditioning side of it, not the practical skill side.
The sample plan at the bottom of the article shows an upper/lower split, so 3 or 4 days a week would be fine, 5 would be a recovery issue. Use that 5th day for bag work or a BJJ class to make everyone happy. 
Definitely and it’s not addressing the mental side of it either. The title is a bit misleading and so is the opening statement:
"In a worst case scenario, would you be physically and mentally ready to fight to save yourself or someone else? What qualities would you need to survive? Here’s what you’d need:"
In fact it even touches on the mental side of it in the 1st sentence, but than ignores it throughout the entire article, even blatantly turning its back on it when discussing toughness:
"You’ve heard the phrase “mental toughness” a million times. But is there any kind of toughness other than mental toughness? Sure, there’s body resilience, but it shares an intimate relationship with our conscious ability to deal with pain, discomfort, and other less than optimal circumstances"
As if to say '20 rep squats will make you tough enough to take a haymaker to head?"
I think the article itself is pretty decent, just that it may give the wrong impression to some people, especially those who have never been in a fight or trained in the martial arts.
When I trained in Japan, my coach would have us spin for 30 seconds and then shadowbox to simulate getting rocked. The only difference is that getting rock hurts.
I’m fit enough to reach for my pepper spray or taser. Not fit enough to dodge a bullet. Ever.
I’m fit enough to take an average powered punch anywhere below the neck. Pretty sure I can take a punch to the face, but I’m still gonna cry my ass off, because it’s gonna hurt either way.
I’m fit enough to give it my all. Meaning whoever’s trying to either kill me or hurt me isn’t going to do so without huffing and puffing and breaking a sweat trying to whoop my ass. Unless they’re cool with manhandling 200lbs of woman on any given day.
I don’t feel pain when I’m scared and/or angry.
I’m tough enough to take a hit and keep fighting (I have fights behind me)
I have no special technique and I never trained anything, I simply rely on my speed. And since 6 months ago, I’m not going pretty much anywhere without my fixed blade knife.
So combine a knife with speed, and I’m pretty sure I can mess up pretty much anyone. And I know I’m crazy enough not to hesitate to do so judging from what I did in my previous fights, I’ll even bite, headbutt or try to poke your eyes out with my fingers…