22 reviews for Basement Bodybuilding: PPLPP Program
Basement Bodybuilding is a natural bodybuilding educator on YouTube with over 20K subscribers. This channel exists to challenge the consensus of bodybuilding methods, while establishing a better fundamental philosophy of training for natural bodybuilding.
This is Basement Bodybuilding's Premium 5-day per week Push Pull Legs Push Pull (PPLPL) program designed for novice and intermediate lifters looking to refine their skills and build an aesthetic physique.
Preston N.
Man, 2311 weeks complete
5 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Professional program hopper here. I have never done a program longer than a month. I should be an intermediate lifter, but I can’t help but shake the feeling that I’m a beginner. Yeah I bench 300lbs, but before I discovered this guys videos I have never cared about form. I’ve been lifting like a highschooler in weightlifting class for years. Mostly a waste of time. This program has really made me slow things down, and focus on form, control, and effort. Hated this style of training at first. I love this program now that I’m finishing up, I think I’ll hop on another lower volume maximum effort program like this in the future. 1. If you are a newer lifter/you don’t track, the first few weeks might be a pain in the rear. It took me a little while to find all the weights that I needed to be lifting for the rep ranges the program asked for. 2. I got beef with the leg day. I get that it’s not a focus of this program, but I do not think my quads benefited from this program at all. My hams were destroyed ever week tho, I have noticeable gains in the hamstring region. I also dislike how the Pen squat is in the middle of the day, some days my lower back is absolutely trashed before I made it to the squats. Maybe that’s just me. Somehow every lift ends being an around hour an hour everytime. I did this program on a bulk, great results. Steady PRs I managed to do this program working 12 hour night shifts, it was not easy, and I had to do a lot of adjusting to my schedule to fit workouts in, but it is possible.
Kranimal
Man, 404 weeks complete
3 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
4 weeks in and seeing SIGNIFICANT progressive overload gains! Great program great app for the price! 8 weeks left of this mesocycle and I’m pumped literally and figuratively lol. Edit: end of Week 5, definitely using Week 6 as a deload week plus it will work nicely with Thanksgiving. Had planned on doing deloads on week 4 & 8 but pushed through. Making week 6 a deload week is pretty much non negotiable as this is a pretty intense program.
Derek Wilson
Man, 313 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Good
Esteban C.
Man, 327 weeks complete
4 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Great program for hypertrophy. It did wonders for my chest and bicep gains
Momo Yoyo
Man, 263 weeks complete
7 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Awesome Program! Would definitely recommend it to novice and intermediate lifters. Basement Bodybuilding is based.
Isaac R.
Man, 293 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Fire
Cesar R.
Man, 301 week complete
5 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Been following BB training for a bit specially specifically arm days , ive seen allot of growth in my biceps and triceps , my arms never seemed this big ever !
Warre D.
Man, 253 weeks complete
3 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
This is a really great program. I wanted to focus on my arms more because they are lagging a bit and this is the perfect program for that. Would 100% recommend!
Jesse L.
Man, 343 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Honestly this is just the program I needed. I have been training for a decade and have tried everything under the sun but the answer was always right infront of me. Consistency and intensity are the dials. There is no special move that will require no effort but give you major gains. This program dials you in on the big needle movers. Milking the preachers and the JM presses do wonders to the arms. I'm 4 weeks in and got my first major compliment out in the wild with someone asking me "what do you do to get so much mass on your arms". I sent him your way Landon.
Franklin G.
Man, 285 weeks complete
4 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Big fan of BB YouTube Channel. This program excels at curving my anxiety towards progressive overload and helped me prevent over training . Did some slight modifications as I do unfortunately have 4 slipped discs on my neck, however my strength has increased still, highly recommend this program as I have my gym partner on it and he's fairly new and is experiencing some great results.