(If You Must)
š Kettlebell MAXIMORUM
š āTHE GIANTā
š āThe King-Sized Killerā
All the programs I design are designed to be āstandaloneā and create a specific outcome.
Unless otherwise stated, which is (a) rare, and (b) usually contained in a FAQ in the program itself or a series of follow up emails.
(Same thing w/ other program designers I know.)
For example:
My newest program, Kettlebell MAXIMORUM, is designed to be the āultimateā kettlebell program.
Itās designed to develop maximum strength, power, strength endurance, and power endurance. As a result, it builds muscle and strips off body fat as a result.
Or at least keeps you from gaining body fat from accumulating (worst case scenario).
You donāt need to do anything nor should you want to, because itās that physically challenging.
Which brings me to my second point:
Challenging.
Many times, and Iām not saying this is the case with you, NAME, but many guys donāt challenge themselves when they train.
They:
[1] Arenāt fully present - distracted by their phones - emails, YouTube, podcasts, whateverā¦
[2] Focus on quantity instead of quality - so they do a ābunch of workā but miss the forest for the trees so to speak.
For example - they try to do as many reps as possible, but they donāt care about the quality of the rep, and as a result, they arenāt working nearly as much as they think they are.
Theyāre not challenging themselves to do the RIGHT work.
Case in point:
As Iām writing this, Iām watching my son go through the strength and conditioning portion of gymnastics practice. He knows Iām here, and keeps looking up at me to see if Iām watching him. I am.
He was just doing pull ups, but he wasnāt even getting his chin over the bar, which I know he can do, because Iāve shown him how to do it.
So, when he looked up at me after doing a set, I put my hand across my throat, and he nodded his head, because he knew exactly what I was talking about.
Next set?
Chin over the bar, touching high on the throat.
Those last couple of inches seem like a small thing, but they make a BIG difference in the amount of work you actually do, and therefore the results you get in return.
Another case in point:
When I work with people oneāon-one on their technique.
Everyone is always shocked at how much work theyāre doing when we add in the correct cues.
Most of the time they use muscles they didnāt even know they had, or at least didnāt know they were supposed to use.
And the volume of work - the total number of reps they do?
Usually 30 to 50% less.
But theyāre MUCH HIGHER QUALITY reps.
This make sense?
So, if you feel like you need to āmixā programs, make sure youāve got the details of your technique dialed in first.
Then, because youāre actually doing more of the ārightā work, youāll most likely change your mind.
[3] Using the wrong starting weight
All my programs use specific loads.
Theyāre usually some variation of a RM - Rep Max.
Problem is, sometimes - many times - people ignore this.
How do I know?
Simple - I get emails asking me what weight they should use.
Some guys use the right load. Some guys just āwing itā and use what they have, and the load isnāt challenging enough.
So, make sure youāre using the prescribed load(s).
[4] Finally, thereās RECOVERY.
I talk about recovery more than Iād like.
But thatās because many of us over 40 still think that weāre in our late teens or early 20s.
In other words, thatās our view of ourselves, even though the mirror and our performance says otherwise.
And itās important to acknowledge this, because 20 to 30 years of ālife stressā adds up - like compounding interest - only in reverse.
And that means we canāt perform at the same levels and our bodies take longer to recover from our workouts.
So, yeah, maybe you used to train 6 days a week when you were 19 or 20 or 21ā¦
But at 41ā¦ 51ā¦ or older?
Probably not going to happen without the proverbial wheels eventually falling off the bus.
So, if you need to do āextra,ā do complimentary work - mobility, stretching, walking, extra sleep, etc.
āSEQUENTIALā MIXING
There are some programs that you CAN mix - sequentially - that is, one after another.
Two that immediately come to mind are āTHE GIANTā and āThe King-Sized Killerā (KSK).
Hereās a review from āJamesPTAā about how he did it and his results:
The long and the short of it is, you can simply alternate 4 week blocks of āTHE GIANTā with 3 week blocks of KSK.
At The End of The Dayā¦
If youāre doing something, but youāre not seeing the results youāre expecting from that something, then itās not working, whether you like it or not.
Hopefully this clears this whole āmixing programsā thing up for you.
Stay Strong,
Geoff
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