Reviews

Love this program. I moved from the Barbarian upper/lower to this, and it was a good progression. A little more variety, and the markers of progression have moved my compounds up significantly. As I grew more comfortable and felt I could, I added a bit more volume for chest and biceps, which fit in well with this as the foundation. Faz is a voice of reason in a fitness world of hype and over-reaction!

Although this program is what I would call moderate to even low volume, relative to what I’ve been used to, I decided to run with it during an aggressive fat loss diet, which incidentally was also from Faz’s content. During a cut where I lost just under 30 pounds I gained strength in every lift. This is from someone with over 25 years of training under his belt. Additionally, this program helped me to realize that I have been over training: a nice bonus is that what I considered chronic shoulder and elbow pain, which I considered would be with me for the rest of my training career, has just about gone away as they approved three months into the program. I am ecstatic! It just happens that an upper lower split seems to be perfect balance for me, a dad in his mid 40s, a stressful job and demanding parenting role. I highly recommend this program, probably for intermediate plus. 

I really like the program but I still wish there was a little more variety to the exercises each week. I still really enjoy it tho

Great program focused on hyperthrophy. Minimazing STR and maximazing muscle growth. Recomended!

This is a great program for moderate volume on 4-days a week - the markers of progression concept is appealing as it provides better focus but honestly I struggle not to want to progress all exercises if I can anyway! There's a large degree of freedom both in choosing which markers of progression and exercise selection which personally I prefer but others may need/want something more prescriptive. I had to follow a different lower body protocol as I was following a tendinopathy rehab program in parallel but the upper body program definitely helped improve my focus lifts. I should say that I was cutting the whole way through but still seeing progress in either weight or reps at regular intervals (not weekly), which was obviously great. It helped that two of my markers were weighted calisthenics! Small warning: the way this is set up in boostcamp, it assumes your first exercise in each session is your chosen marker and will auto-reduce reps by 2 at each phase. If you've not chosen your first exercise as a marker or picked a different exercise, you'll need to manually override inevitably each week. I believe you should be doing 3 sets not 2 of your progression marker but this isn't clear and probably doesn't matter that much. Remember to start your chosen marker exercise at 10 reps and reduce by 2 reps each phase until you reach 6 reps.

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This program is fun and working very nicely

It works well for me being over 50, the upper / lower 4 days is great.

This is an excellent program. I appreciate the suggested variations for each set. Thanks

Seems great for now. Trying it on a recomp phase, increase slightly overall volume. Let's see how it goes in the future with the other phases.