Reviews
Intermediate Bodybuilding Program (by Eric Helms)
Great for beginners and intermediates. Walks users through the workouts with detail and without any confusion
Very good and helpful, clear and adjustable, im on my 2nd run through and im feeling the gains!
I really wanted to love this program. The first two days of program were amazing. But the last three days were way too easy. Only 4 exercises on pull and push. No bicep exercise for pull day. Maybe for a beginner this would be a good program but someone trying to push at the intermediate or advanced level, just not enough volume.
I like this program! Monday and Tuesday are super long days compared to the rest of the week but it’s fine as long as you allocate enough time to it. I am a woman in a calorie deficit so I don’t ever expect crazy strength gains but this program does ensure that I am increasing weight each week and I feel like I am getting slowly but surely stronger. The exercises themselves are great. Tried and true stuff, the big 3 compounds, and nothing goofy lol. Can recommend
Nice workout program
It's flexible and not proscriptive. The progression rules are intuitive. I train around bouldering as my main hobby so I have to juggle the days to manage overtraining so this program being built around upper/lower/push/pull splits really helps.
Good program
Good overall mix of strength and hypertrophy. Eric does a good job incorporating some of the bigger movements like squat and deadlift. I’m more of a powerlifter, so while this still gave me some of what I wanted, I think it could be slightly tweaked to be even more effective.
Good base program, progressions are easy to follow personally only modified exercises to add more external stability but I assume my results would have been relatively similar just using the program as written.
I like this one, it’s been ok. I think i got more gains from the Greg Knockles Beginner Powerlifter than this one.