Greetings and Ground Rules

[sking1001]

Thanks so much for this, Andy! I love this bit you gave me:

Run your set up as is for 12 weeks. Modify nothing and make no midstream changes. After 12 weeks, reevaluate. If you are not setting big PRs on the intensity day then you or your program suck. After 12 weeks you will have learned a ton about yourself, your training tolerances, what worked, what didn’t work, etc. Then you can file it away and no one (me, rip, or otherwise) has the authority to tell you that what you are doing is good or bad. You have to run the experiment though. And that means giving the thing some time and not changing up your variables every week.

We're the same height too. Not that you should care, but I think it's cool.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

I'll hang onto that little tidbit for future endeavors then. Thanks for the feedback.

[Carlos Daniel]

I'll pick your brains in the near-future. Thanks for dedicating a share of your time to help us with far less experience.

[Kyle Aaron]

No wonder I am so tired all the time.

12 sessions/day

12 sessions a day is still very busy, I'd be tired from that. I do 6x 30' sessions a day, could do more but deliberately restrict my hours because I'm a new dad. Most of my colleagues are happy when they do 60 a month.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

I generally do 6-8 appts in the morning, and 4-6 in the evening. When I can I pair people up, but yeah, it sucks and its alot of hours. I have a two year old and a three year old and its TOUGH trying to balance work and home life.

[drlvegas]

Andy: Would you consider posting some sample programs or sample templates that you use for clients? Like, say, a typical powerlifting split, or a typical powerbuilding split, or your typical "Powerbuilding Split for Older Guy Who Can Only Lift 2 Days a Week." Or maybe your "I Can't Make Progress Deadlifting Heavy Every Week" template. I argue that this would still be fair to your paying clients, because although we're getting the templates for free, we're not getting it specialized, we're not getting your feedback on progress, etc. We're just getting little tips, not full-service.

He wrote a book with some of his sample templates. I have the paper version & still refer back to it sometimes--some good stuff.

I don't remember the site where it was available--is it still available Andy?

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

No, I took it down. Working on a newer and much more improved version.

[sking1001]

Haha, now we can nag you about the book here AND in your log.

[MAD9692]

Awesome...looking foward to the next e-book.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

This one is actually gonna be a real book I think.