Why We Don’t Do 4 Week Training Blocks

July 19, 2025

The reason that I tried to keep a good amount of variability while still having some consistency within our program is because I've seen it so many times where dudes are on the same program. They do the same thing for a month, two months, three months, six months, whatever. And maybe for the first like small period of time, they get some good benefit. But then after that, the gains just fall off because your body adapts to that. 

So like literally what I'll try to do is like if you're in the program, there's going to be consistency in the sense of we're hitting similar movements. We're hitting similar, like, stimuluses, right? But I'm trying to almost make it feel like you're in Over the course of, let's say, six months, maybe you're in three different programs over the course of that six months.

 And the reason for that is not to just provide variability and chaos for no point. The reason is I've seen when we just do the same thing over and over and over, your body adapts to that stimulus and it doesn't create any change anymore. So what we want to do is we want to shock the system as often as possible, as often as we can, shock the system into being like, 'Hey, you need to change and you need to adapt.' 

Because if we're not providing that shock to the system, we're not providing the signal that says, 'Hey, your survival is threatened and you need to adapt in order to be able to survive.'

 So it's literally like in the program, every, you know, two months, let's say every two or three months, it's like, 'I want it to almost feel like you're in a different program.' where we're hitting something in a different way, where it might be, you know, one, it might be like we're doing a bunch of depth drops and we're really pushing the height on those. Another one, it might be we're doing a ton of volume. But we don't stay on that forever, just like we don't stay on the depth drops forever. It's like we want to hit these spurts where everything is kept in, but we're biasing these different things that are going to provide different adaptations. 

So it always feels like we're providing that shock to the system and stimulating it in a little bit of a different way so that it continues to change, adapt, and grow.