A1 hammer strength step back rows- 1 set, 6-8 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

B1 single-arm machine pull down – 1 set, 6-8 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

C1 hip torso activation- as many reps as needed

D1 deadlifts (from the floor) – 1 set, 5-8 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

E1 single leg leg curls – 1 set, 4-8 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

F1 seated leg curls – 1 set, 6-8 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

*****all sets listed working. Do as many warmup sets as needed


A1 activations

B1 Seated leg curls – 2 sets, 8-12 reps, 2 minutes rest between sets

C1 reverse band SS bar squats – 1 set, 6-8 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

D1 leg extensions – 1 set, 10-12 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

E 1 cybex squat press – 1 set, 10-12 reps, 3 minutes rest before top set

****all sets list are working sets. Take as many warm up sets as needed.

Food​ ​options

Red meat: beef, bison, elk, venison (GRASS FED) 95/5 or leaner

Lean protein (LESS​ ​THAN​ ​3g​ ​fat​ ​per​ ​8oz​ ​serving)​: chicken, turkey, wild caught fish, eggs (count the fat), egg whites, occasionally vegan protein.

Fats: coconut oil, olive oil (don’t cook with), macadamia oil, grassfed butter, almonds, MCT oils, cashews, walnuts (pretty much any nuts other than peanuts), avocado, (what is in grassfed protein, or wild caught fish)

Carbs: rice, potatoes, quinoa, oatmeal, pasta, cereal (Gluten free/organic – and I don’t care the color of any of them, as long as it is the only ingredient – like rice pasta, etc…).

I am very wheat intolerant, so I tend to eat gluten free (to avoid wheat, not gluten).

Greens/vegetables: unlimited, but a minimum of 2 cups, unless otherwise specified: spinach, kale, broccoli, asparagus, mixed greens, mushrooms, onions, etc…

All meats are precooked weight. Measure all carbs pre cooked. Macros for the meal must add up.

All foods is organic. All red meat and butter is grassfed. All fish is wild caught. Eggs
pasture raised. This is most important for fats, and high fat proteins. (Toxins are stored
in fat). For some white lean meat I do just “hormone and pesticide free”, not necessarily
organic. IMO managing inflammation and toxic load is the “X Factor” when getting
extremely lean. And not “halting” towards the end of prep. If you don’t agree, that’s cool,
do your thing.

Water: 24oz first thing in the AM before food (lime and apple cider vinegar first thing in
the AM as well) . At least 36oz during training. At least gallon and a half on training
days.

Changes from last bulk are in Red.

One​ ​workout​ ​(1​ ​meal​ ​pre​ ​-​ ​training)

  • Meal 1 (pre training) – 12oz red meat, 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • WORKOUT 1 – Intra – 30g carbs
  • Meal 2 – 12oz lean protein, 150g carbs
  • Meal 3 – 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 4- 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 5 – 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, greens

One​ ​workout​ ​(2​ ​meals​ ​pre​ ​-​ ​training)

  • Meal 1 – 8oz lean protein, 75g carbs, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 2 (pre training) – 12oz red meat, 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • WORKOUT 1 – Intra – 30g carbs
  • Meal 3 – 12oz lean protein, 150g carbs
  • Meal 4- 8oz lean protein, 150g carbs, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 5 – 8oz lean protein, 150g carbs, greens

Off​ ​day

  • Meal 1 – 10oz​ ​red​ ​meat​, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 2 – 8oz lean protein, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 3 – 8oz lean protein, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 4- 8oz lean protein, 15g fat, greens
  • Meal 5 – 8oz lean protein, 125g carbs, greens

cheat​ ​meals​ ​-​ ​Friday and Saturday night (replaces meal 5)

**** while not a “rule” I always recommend having cheat meals to replace the last meal of the day. This way you do not have some epic breakfast cheat meal that takes you 8 hours to recover from, causing you to miss 3 meals. Cheats can be essentially “whatever you can get away with”, but you need to CONSISTENTLY get in all the quality food you need to grow. I also attempt to avoid cheat foods that cause a ton of inflammation. (Messing up my stomach, or breathing the following day/s)

Supplements

PRE​

  • 3 capsules mental trigger (Redcon1)
  • 2 scoops big noise (Redcon1)
  • 4g citruline (true nutrition)

INTRA​

  • 10g BCAAs (Redcon1 breach)
  • 5g EAAs (Thorne EAAs)
  • 4g citruline malate (true nutrition)
  • 30g carbs- Vitargo or Branched Dextrin (Redcon1 cluster bomb)

POST​ ​workout​ (with/right before meal – no shake):

  • 10g leucine (true nutrition)
  • 20g EAAs (Thorne EAAs)
  • 5g taurine (Poliquin)
  • 2 scoop electrolytes (KTS)
  • 200mg theanine (Poliquin)
  • 600mg Magnesium glycinate (Poliquin)
  • 5g Glycine (Poliquin)

Daily/health​ (I recommend from Metagenics, Designs for Health, Thorne, Poliquin, Nutridyn)

  • Poliquin PN multi – 3 daily
  • Poliquin UltraHCL – 2 with every meal
  • Poliquin Uber C Vitamin C (6g total daily)
  • Poliquin uber Zinc (150-200mg daily)
  • Poliquin Magnesium (1g-2g daily – 600 mag glycinate post training, 4-6 capsules of UberMag with last two meals)
  • Poliquin D3 (5000iu)
  • Designs for Health – Trans Resveratrol (600mg)
  • Estrogen detox – Designs for Health FemGuard – 6 per day
  • Poliquin or Metagenics 720 blend Fish oil – (6g per day)
  • Metagenics Probiotic (2 per day, AFTER meal) – rotate between UltraFlora Spectrum and UltraFlora IB (switch every 2 weeks)
  • Nutridyn greens – 3 scoops per day
  • KTS Electrolytes – 4-6 scoops per day
  • Fiber supplement – 15g per day (rotate brands every 2 weeks)
  • Thorne berberine 500 – 1g per day
  • Thorne liver cleanse – 1 cap daily
  • Thorne SAT – 1 cap daily
  • Nutridyn calmez – 2 with last meal
  • Poliquin CLox- 2-3 per day

Off​ ​day​ ​supplement​ ​changes

  • greens – 6-8 per day
  • Electrolytes – 6-8 per day
  • Poliquin CLox- 6 per day
  • Fiber – 30g per day
  • Femguard – 10 per day
  • Fish oil – 3g per meal
  • Increase liver/kidney detox (will follow up with this – changing products)

Off​ ​day​ ​strategies

  • more sleep, more naps
  • spend more time with the boys
  • More “special time” with the wifey
  • add in any relaxing activities in loving low intensity movement (walk outside, yoga)
  • keep stress low
  • increase vegetable servings per meal (as much as you can palate)
  • increase water intake, at least 2+ gallons (8 liters)
  • Read something non-educational
  • watch excessive amounts of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars

Split​ ​overview

  • Arms
  • Back/side and rear delts
  • Legs
  • Chest/side delts
  • Arms
  • Back/deadlifts/hams
  • Delts

repeat

Split​ ​daily
Arms

  1. single-arm DB preacher
  2. Seated cuff cable extension
  3. seated incline cable
  4. cable cross tri-X

Back/rear​ ​and​ ​side​ ​delt

  1. nautilus row
  2. nautilus single-arm pull down
  3. magnum row
  4. lying cuff lateral raises
  5. reverse pec dec

Legs

  1. Seated leg curls
  2. reverse band SS bar squats
  3. leg extensions
  4. cybex squat press

Chest/tris/bis

  1. incline DB
  2. hammer strength incline(ish) chest press
  3. lying cuff laterals

Arms

  1. single-arm DB preacher
  2. cable cross tri-X
  3. seated incline cable
  4. lying DB triceps extensions

Back/Deadlift/hams

  1. hammer strength step back row
  2. nautilus single-arm pull down
  3. deadlifts (from the floor)
  4. single-leg leg curls
  5. Seated leg curls

Delts

  1. DB military press
  2. lying cuff lateral raises
  3. reverse pec dec

A1 core, hip, glute activation

B1 kneeling banded smith squats – 4 sets, 12-15 reps*** 45 seconds rest
****last two sets, extend sets with just band

C1 leg press (feet high and wide) – 2 sets, 10-15 reps, 2 min rest

D1 banded rack RDLs – 4 sets, 8-10 reps*** 90 seconds rest
***extend last two sets with just bands

E1 banded bridges – 15+ reps***
E2 banded squats – 15 + reps
E3 prowler glute walk – up and back
4 sets, 45 seconds rest
***every set drop set to extend set

*****working sets listed. Take as many warm ups as needed.


  1. I’m just I’m watching some videos about Nikki prep. You are talking in the first video how to make her waist small, and bring up her X frame focusing on detls and quads swip. Could you share her split division for reach that? From this point I will do more questions. Your guidelines are focusing to male goals. I would like to do the same with figure athletes. Could you help on that?
  2. So if someone were to do an exercise to complete failure for one set or about 80% for three
    sets, to equal the same amount of volume, then how would hit be superior?
  3. Which formula can I use to obtain my daily calorie intake (gains mass and fat loss). I put the 2 topics just to obtain knowledge about calculate % for booth goals. A good website to research info about macros per gram/oz of food?
  4. What would be a good heart rate to do you steady state, is there a certain formula since
    everyone is different.
  5. Hi Joe, question for you, my quads are lagging massively and really want to bring them up,
    been riddled with knee injuries recently but got them right so was just questioning how you
    would go about setting up a training split to make quads go crazy big?
  6. Hi Joe, I am new to site and I really enjoy the content. Is it possible for you to explain first, how can an individual assess its body to check which exercises best suits to his body and secondly, can you explain how someone can create his training program in let’s say offseason volume-wise and what portion of workout should be dedicated to overload and what to metabolic work?
  7. Hi Joe, when do you suggest to increase food in offseason, I am 88kg the last 2 weeks but my log book is progressing even by small increments each week. Previous years I was obsessed with the number on scale and I became sloppy early in my offseason. So what variables you assess prior to further food increase.
  8. Is there a point that your body adapts to lactic acid occurred during drop sets? If that is the case, do you suggest to increase the weight or add more drop sets? Is there a point of diminishing returns in terms of hypertrophy?

1 Hey Joe. I’ve been massively working on contractions and the lengthening/shortening of my exercises. Being much more strict and seen amazing results so far to my physique. I was just wondering though, of all the muscle groups I find it hard to massively squeeze my side delts. Any tips for that or drills I could implement?

2 What are your thoughts on nutrition around training time when training first thing in the morning/thoughts on training on an empty stomach?

3 When prioritizing one bodypart by training it two to three times a week and training other bodyparts less frequent, how would you structure the workouts for the bodypart you want to bring up. Let’s say you train this muscle group three times, would you just have three hypertrophy focused workouts, or have like one more strenght-focused workout, one workout focused on more higher reps and one workout focused on pure hypertrophy style training? Also how would you divide the volume over these three workouts?

4 Hey joe! I know we shouldn’t stress about greens, but they do have calories. Could you maybe explain why a lot of people say don’t worry, eat all you want and some say you need to be cautious about it because it does contain calories. Thanks!!

5 I respect you for not talking about chemistry and substances related, and your honesty makes me follow you even more. But I guess lot of people is subscribed to try follow and extrapolate your knowledge. At least I am here for learning and moderate such brilliant way to design everything (you are contagious in the way to think and create your plans).

But I would like to know, which % of such nutrition plan depends on chemistry. Without talking about substances and based on your profile, how it would be planned without substances ?

6 Why do weigh your meat pre cooked? in some chicken there is water and in some chicken not

7 How would you take this same approach if you have a very fast metabolism and need a lot of calories to gain strength and muscle. Lately because of work and being busy I ate 330p/850c/130f (which was barely enough to maintain weight). I went down 1 kg over 3 weeks.
Would you go fat+protein in the morning then carbs and protein for the rest of the day untill you reach your pre workout meal, shift back to fats and protein for that meal, train and then put carbs back in? I always train in the evening due to work.


Splits

Back, side delts, rear delts Biceps and triceps Hamstrings

Chest, delts

2 Biceps and triceps

Legs

***calves every other day (train BEFORE chest and back workouts)

****add in off days as needed (based off current recovery)

Sets

Sets listed are working sets. They are tracked and progressed (either load, reps, and/or executions). Stick within the rep ranges (unless listed otherwise per body part). Set one will always be the top load. Sets 2 and 3 (if listed) will be in the form of “drop down” sets as the load will need to be dropped to hit prescribed rep ranges. Rest 2-3 minutes before and in between working sets. Do not let cardiovascular be the limiting factor, and do not “cool off”.

Always start with “activations” before the workout. Take as many warmup sets as needed.

Set 1 – 5-8 reps

Set 2 – 8-12 reps

Set 3 – 12-15 reps

Metabolic – rest 45-60 seconds between sets, rep range prescribed

Back, side delts, rear dear

  • 1 Hammer strength “step back” single arm row – 2 sets
  • 2 Hammer strength pull douwn – 2 sets
  • 3 chest supported t-bar row (medium grip) – 2 sets
  • 4 single-arm DB rows – (metabolic) – 4 sets of 12
  • 5 lying cuff lateral raises – 3 sets
  • 6 reverse pec dec – 3 sets