Did it work? Or was it just boring, or brutal?
It is not a good protocol… massively overtrained. The CNS fatigue is off the charts. The cellular swelling, fluid retention, edema = is masked as hypertrophy
I did it successfully, but I (and my joints and CNS) were much younger and a lot of the success was simply because it was better and different from the mediocre programs I had been using before. The critiques of Thibs and TC are valid. Yet it is also true I gained from GVT. It was not quite as good on repeat.
Eye fillet or scotch have been good of late on our latest ‘half a cow’ purchase (80kg (175lb ish) into the freezer a few weeks ago).
In saying that a slow cooked brisket at home is sublime also, don’t make me choose just one! 
Noted on your trap bar option… defo a good find mate! How would that one go pulling from the floor to overhead though?
Oh man, I wouldn’t even consider brisket in the steak category: that’s going in quite a different direction. I like the idea of brisket too: SO many ways you can prepare it, to include grinding it up and making brisket burgers.
It’s not lost on me that “Chaos is the plan” was based around floor to overhead and this limits that ability, outside of just hulk smashing it up.
But that said, this thread had the intended effect of making me think, and now I’m actually reconsidering my initial pick and thinking a yoke might be the superior choice. You can squat, press, and deadlift a yoke, along with push it like a sled, carry it as a yoke, etc etc.
Now, deadlifting one WILL be pretty awkward. You’d need hooks more than straps, but the potential is there. Pressing a yoke is a particular kind of nasty.
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This is a good reminder. When I moved a few weeks back, I OHP’d my yoke and walked it to back of truck. I hadn’t been strong enough in past to do that. I need to try and incorporate this into marking my territory in my new neighborhoods alley. Trying to be that weird fit dad on the street.
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We have an old version of this at home. At my height (read: short!), an overhead press gets it barely an inch off the ground. Then cue overhead carry to another location to allow me to mow the lawns.
Then move it back again after.
Brutal.
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Good mornings or Zercher RDL for that hinge pattern?
If I were to do a home gym again, it would absolutely be a yoke and a barbell with a bench as an eventual luxury.
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I dig this. The whole point of exercise is just find some heavy shit and move it.
Did 405 Yoke raw for like 70 feet once. Love that apparatus. I use it for Zircher carries
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Having used most of the Nautilus machines gotta say that I don’t see anything that special about the pullover despite its recent praise. It is a great machine. But almost all the Nautilii were superior machines IMHO. Not a lie.
Oh my goodness a yoke good morning would be positively evil! Zercher definitely sounds like a viable approach.
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