20 reviews for Meathook
Meathook is an all purpose training program that translates my training habits and philosophies into a format suitable for use by the general lifting population. It incorporates my weekly schedule, my preferred routines for hypertrophy, and some of my favorite progressions and periodization for strength development.
This program is NOT suitable for beginners, but is suitable for intermediate lifters and advanced lifters, some suggestions on how to handle the program at each level will be included in this document. This is NOT a powerlifting program, or a program dedicated to any other strength sport, though it can be used in an off-season and the strength and size developed through running it will carry over to strength sports if you utilize dedicated training afterwards.
The program runs for 12 weeks but can be repeated indefinitely. The program assumes access to a full gym with a good machine selection, but can be performed with a more minimal set up (though I believe this will impede the hypertrophy days abit).
I HIGHLY recommend reading this entire document prior to running the program, in order to understand how to properly use it.
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Devon W.
Man, 283 weeks complete
3 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Thanks Mark.
Girth lord
Man, 334 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Excellent program. As others have stated, go for as long as you can without hurting yourself. Think of the workouts more as # 1-5 and less of prescribed days per week. The only exercises I swapped were the variations recommended. Push yourself and you'll see your numbers jump (coming from someone who's done 531 for years and 3 Bromeley programs, which are also great). Listen to the man's recommendations for each day. Eat at least in a surplus and push the sled around for cardio. Good luck.
Jefherson
Man, 323 weeks complete
4 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Great workout program. I like the pacing and separation of strength vs volume days.
Charles_799063
Man, 439 weeks complete
3 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Excellent program for anyone interested in something to do off season for powerlifting.
Man, 25
3 weeks complete
4 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
Volume is a bit much but the workout choices are great
Frederika F.
Woman, 325 weeks complete
5 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Very good, I just get very bored easily so added some of my own bits!
Natalia G.
Woman, 345 weeks complete
8 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
Still in the middle of the program but really love the simplicity. Clean and practical way to train and keep track of your exercises and improvements.
Jamie C.
Man5 weeks complete
6 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
So far my only adjustment is swapping out a MagOrt style cadence for deadlifts on Day 1, otherwise sticking with the program and feeling mmmmeeeaaaatttyyyyyy. Dont try to cram the 5 days into every single week, im on “week 6” after about 7.5 weeks.
ANSIE
Man, 403 weeks complete
6 years of prior experience
As expected strength gains
As expected muscle gains
It’s all G double O D good
Seth N.
Man, 3212 weeks complete
2 years of prior experience
More than expected strength gains
More than expected muscle gains
I ran 12 weeks of this program and really liked it. Gonna run it back again because I’m seeing new gains and PR’s every session. As long as you read Mark’s program guide and manage your fatigue appropriately you’ll have no issues. 🐴🐓