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New Product: The Basic Barbell Bundle (4 programs, 10% discount)

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I wanted to give everyone a heads up that later this week I'll be offering 4 of my most popular training programs as a bundle for a 10% discount.

The Basic Barbell Bundle will include the following for just $89......

Garage Gym Warrior

My most popular program. This is a 13 week cyclical Heavy-Light-Medium program perfectly suited

for a bare bone garage or basement gym. This program operates in cyclical 3-week mini-cycles. Each

cycle begins with a week of higher volume and lower intensity and slowly increases intensity and lowers

volume over the course of 3 weeks. Every 4th week volume increases and intensity drops again. This

pattern continues for 9 weeks (three 3-week mini-cycles) and then trainees have the option to run a 3-4

week peaking phase for weeks 10-13. This is an excellent program for over-40 trainees or

anyone looking for a program that is overall pretty moderate in volume.

This is a 3-day per week training program.

The Classic Heavy-Light-Medium

This HLM program is classic tapering style program. Trainees begin with 6 weeks of higher

volume training and then over the course of the second 6 weeks, slowly taper volume and increase

intensity, leading to a peak in week 12. Overall this program is higher in total volume than the

Garage Gym Warrior program. Many trainees that enjoy HLM training programs have had good

success alternating these two programs every 12-13 weeks. This is also a 3-day per week training program.

The KSC Texas Method

This is an excellent program to run on the back end of 12-24 weeks of Heavy-Light-Medium

programming. The key difference between HLM programming and the Texas Method is that

you will be training with some higher intensities once per week every week for 8-12 weeks at a time.

For an intermediate trainee I like using the Texas Method 1-2 times per year to really train your ability to

handle maximal poundages. This program has an option for 3 or 4 days per week of training.

The Baker Barbell 5 x 5

This 13 week program was recently tested on over 150 trainees in my online coaching group

with tremendous results. This program is similar in concept to a traditional Texas Method

program, but the frequency of very high intensity workouts is slightly reduced for each lift.

This is a 3-day per week training program.

Using just these 4 Basic Barbell programs it is easy for trainees to construct over 1 year of training!!!

I recommend that trainees do one or both of the HLM programs followed by either the Texas Method or The Baker Barbell 5 x 5, and then follow that with another run of one or two of the HLM programs.

Following this strategy an entire year of programming might look like this:

January - March: Garage Gym Warrior or Classic HLM

April - June: The Baker Barbell 5 x 5

July - September: Garage Gym Warrior or Classic HLM

October - December: The KSC Texas Method

If you are struggling with consistency through the year putting together your own programming, this bundle might be an excellent solution for you to put together the rest of your year.

(UPDATE): Here is the link to the program bundle: Basic Barbell Bundle

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