May God have mercy on your soul on here.
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Well then, it’s time to get some experience!
Write out the lifts you planned to do for your first workout.
Then execute!
Do a few sets of each lift. Start light and work up. Write down the weights you use.
Report back and tell is how it felt.
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Jesus for that price you could buy a hand full of books on the subject with money remaining to set up a modest home gym set up.
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You Dont say?
$2K for a program?? Did I read that correctly? How special could this program be? lol
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@DJoftheJungle1 yeah no shit…. It better be customized all to hell.
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And hopefully includes some steaks or something with it…
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Seriously - it’s Black Friday week… you could go pretty far on $2k!
But maybe the program actually lifts the weights for you. That would be nice.
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The program consists of 12 training weeks plus 1 introductory week. With a total of 65 sessions, this amounts to approximately 30.70 per session. This fee covers not only the coaches’ salaries but also various business-related expenses.
While it’s true that some coaches charge less and that this amount may seem excessive, there are individuals who find that investing in this type of coaching is what they need to make significant progress in their lives. Many people make far greater mistakes with their finances and choices.
It was not my intention to misrepresent myself, and I will be more mindful of this detail in the future. I prefer not to talk about myself here.
I would likely consider hiring a coach. So I don’t expect customized workouts from you, but I have noticed that many professionals are either unfamiliar with or dismissive of high-volume submaximal training.
My concerns focus on several potential flaws in the plan: excessive training duration, central nervous system overload, and inadequate exercise structure. Is it truly necessary to rely on frequently varied exercises? For example, the original plan is based on the same three power lifts, which are intended to be performed consistently over the course of a year.
Someone pointed out that it can be easy to get confused with rep counting. That’s a valid concern. Unless you have a coach, using a rep tracking app could help address this issue.
For a guy who has no lifting experience… your overthinking the shit out of all this.
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Paralysis by analysis.
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This reads like a chat prompt to try and convince people to also buy this program.
This is one of my favorite ways to do harder things. As many sets as possible to:
- Get 30 down and backs carrying a keg
- Get 50 pullups
- 200 KB swings
- 100 Squats with 225
- Etc
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That’s possible…
For $2k there are several more toys that I could add to my gym.
Im going on a limb and guess 99.9% of the active users aren’t going to rush out and spend that money on a program. With the only ones intresested being your nonactive inexperienced casual readers.
It’s likely the ADHD talking, but I haven’t been able to read one of the posts fully. It’s just too much text for me.
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Yup. I know a LOT of people that want to believe that the solution to fitness is to just throw a bunch of money at it. They just want to ignore/avoid the suffering part of it.
People that buy all the diets and pre-packaged have incredible home gyms, buy all the supplements and books, etc. They do everything EXCEPT the eating and the training.
My dad had a great observation of this. He bought nutrisystem one year. He said the food was TERRIBLE! But, it was also really expensive, so he didn’t want to buy MORE food. So he just didn’t eat. Lost some weight.
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Ive always found the issue with people not seeing results in most cases comes down to something simple. Which most times is a simple fix.
Yeah there’s no free rides…from what I have learned.
I kind of like this, in a way, though. If people invest a little, they’re more likely to actually do the thing - let’s lean into our sunk cost tendencies rather than overcome (or be charitable and call it the IKEA model).
I think that may be some of the benefit of a forum vs a GPT scenario for answering our training: you have to put in enough work to have a real question to even start searching for a solution here.
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I believe the term one could use in this case is Mental Masturbation
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I use it for myself and clients. It works well! I typically set a total sets or total time target to determine when to add weight
Another, similar, strategy I like is to accrue as many heavy (but submax) sets as possible within a given time period, at a given load. An example here would be squat triples at ~80% for 15min, often contrasted/superseded with some kind of jump or plyometric.
The second strategy works fantastically well for group S&C sessions with limited equipment. I regularly have to put groups of 18+ athletes through three squat racks and a single set of dumbbells 5-30kg. Setting 15 minute “stations” without a prescribed number of sets works very well to A) manage time, B) give weaker uncoordinated kids more submax practice, C) give stronger kids more time to warm up to heavy loads
Typical format for my U13-U18 girls’ netball groups, for example
12min per block. Girls split equally between all three blocks and rotate
- A1: Back squat: sets of 5
- A2: Double broad jump and stick: sets of 3
- B1: Chin-up: sets of 5
- B2: Straight leg twist: sets of 8
- C1: Single-leg RDL: sets of 5
- C2: DB bench press: sets of 8
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You won’t know if the soup needs more salt until you taste it!
Get in the gym!
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