Ok, here's something you haven't seen before.
Ok, so along with the Lift Weights Faster conditioning program, there's also a Get Strong Faster strength program. And there's a really cool concept at the heart of it, that's going to blow your mind. There are two parts:
Part One: Don't Go To Failure (Kettlebell Instructors Already Know This Part)
So I know a lot of my readers come from an SFG/RKC/read-a-lot-of-Pavel-and-Dan-John perspective. You guys have read Easy Strength, or the 40 day program, or Power to the People. You're familiar with the concept of doing workouts often, never going to failure, and leaving the gym feeling better than you came in. You've tried this, and you know it's an awesome way to build strength.
That's the first concept, and I'm going to add something wild to it, but I want to do a full stop first, because I know that, for as many people who are totally familiar with the concept above, there are a ton of people who've never seen that.
So – if you're used to going to failure all of the time (whether from CrossFit, P90X, Zuzka Light, Bodyrock, or whatever), it's gotta be totally new, and almost seem crazy to read that.
I'm going to massively over-simplify: If you don't go to failure, if you leave a couple reps in the bank, you can practice perfect form.
Wait — lets amend that. Not just perfect form, but perfect technique. The skill of strength.
Getting in lots of perfect practice (lots of perfect sets and reps) the body gets stronger much faster than red lining at sets to failure all of the time.
Part Two: If The Movement Doesn't Work For You Today,
Do Something Else
So this is the part that's really, really, really unique to Get Stronger Faster.
For example, the first exercise of the first workout has three options:
Conventional Deadlift
Sumo Deadlift
Jefferson Deadlift
And you do whichever version feels best that day.
It's so, so, so totally simple, but it's completely amazeballs. You know those days when you go in the gym and soemthing just doesn't feel right?
Some days you sit at a desk, some days you're running around all day, some days you may be chasing kids, some days you may be totally relaxed; Doesn't it make sense that certain movement variations might be more effective on some days than others?
The cool thing about the program is that you don't have to figure it out ahead of time, it comes with a simple quick assessment.
My friend Jason Wood, who's a Z-Health Master Trainer and got started powerlifting pretty seriously about a year ago, made staggering progress in both strength and body composition doing this. I hadn't seen him in about six months, and he looked completely ripped and jacked compared to the last time I'd seen him. I asked him what he was doing, and he said basically this: "Autoregulation training. I have a plan, but if something doesn't feel right, I do something else or I stop. If it feels good, I run with it. That's it. Oh, and I eat like a bodybuilder and I train like a powerlifter."
So I know it seems ridiculously simple, to do the move that's best for you that day. But no one does that.
People bang away at whatever move is in the program, for however many sets and reps, just because that it's what the program says.
You Need Options, But It's Hard to Make That Decision For Yourself
And look, I write programs all the time. I write books. I write client programs. But when I train people in person, there's a lot more variability than you would think. I make changes on the fly based on the kind of day someone's had, how they ate that day, how they feel… sometimes just how they look doing a movement.
Now, the issue is, it's one thing to have your coach do that. It's another to make that decision on your own.
It's like how Alwyn Cosgrove has always said that trainers shouldn't write their own programs. It's often harder to be your own coach. There's a little more emotion in making your own decisions.
And that's what's so cool about Get Stronger Faster. It gives you the 2-3 options you want to do, for every exercise, each day. Even the moves that are in supersets. And the options are pretty genius, and they aren't always exactly what you would think.
And the program gives you an assessment, so you always know which version to do, and for how many sets.
Get Stronger Faster
I just wanted to highlight that really cool point from the program.
If Lift Weights Faster (the conditioning program) is the yang, then Get Stronger Faster (the strength program) is the yin.
It's a really, really cool package. It's awesome that you get both. It gives you both a really great smartly structured strength program, and it gives you 130+ conditioning workouts for variety. You get exactly what you need, all of the time.
On top of that, Lift Weights Faster has the most encyclopedic resource of SMART strength training movements I've ever seen. Barbell, bodyweight, kettlebell, suspension trainer, sandbags – everything that the really awesome gyms use. And the workouts are broken up not just by which tool you want to use, but also how long a workout you want to do.
Today is the last day it's on sale: Lift Weights Faster and Get Stronger Faster
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