Day 84

A. Max Effort Movement

Chin-Up (3RM)

B. Accessory Movement 

DB Floor Press (2 x MAX)

C. Horizontal Pulling/Rear Delt Superset 

Barbell Row (Underhand) 4 x 8-12

Rest 30s

Band Pull Apart 4 x 12

Rest 60s

D. Traps

Snatch Grip Overhead Shrugs (4 x 10)

E. Vanity Work Superset 

Seated Incline DB Curls 3 x 8-15

Rest 30s

BW Skull Crushers x MAX

Rest 60s

Day 82

A. Pulls

Work up to a Heavy Single Deadlift

B. Squat

Work up to today's Heavy Pause Front Squat + Front Squat

C. Unilateral Work

Bulgarian Split Squat (4 x 6) each leg

D. Condtioning

Tabata Airdyne Intervals

Day 81

Warm-Up:

Tabata Air Squats

A. Bench

Bench Press (5RM) 

B. Accessory Work

Arnold Presses (5 x 10)

C. Horizontal Pulling/Rear Delt Superset

Seated Row (3 x 12)
Rest 30s
Rear Delt Raises (3 x 12)
Rest 30s

D. Vanity Work

1. EZ Bar Curl (3 x 28 Method) 

*7 Regular Reps
*7 Slow Reps
*7 Half-Reps from the bottom
*7 Half-Reps from the top

2. Bodyweight Skull Crushers (3 x MAX)

Day 178

A.) Front Squat (3-2-1-3-2-1-6) 

Rest 2 minutes between sets

80% x 3 

85% x 2

90% x 1

85% x 3

90% x 2

95% x 1

80% x 6

B.) Bulgarian Split Squat (3 x 8), across (each leg)

C.) Cable Pull Through (3 x 12), across

- Sub Banded Good Mornings (3 x 15-20) if you do not have a cable machine.

D.) Cable (or Banded) kneeling crunches (3 x 15)

E.) MetCon:

10 Rounds

200m row
30 Sec. rest

Day 177

A.) Weighted Chin-Up 

Work up to 3RM

B.) Stationary Dips (2 x MAX)

Rest 3 minutes between max efforts.

C.) Superset

DB Single Arm Row (4 x 12)
Rest 30s
BPA (4 x 20)
Rest 30s

D.) Superset

DB Overhead Tricep Extension (3 x 12)
Rest 30s
Hammer Curls (3 x 12)
Rest 30s

Day 172

A.) Incline Barbell Bench (3RM)

B.) DB Floor Press (2 x MAX)

C.) Single Arm DB Row (4 x 10)

C2.) Rehab Muscle Snatch (4 x 10)

D1.) Seated Row (3 x 10)

D2) MB Clench Push-Up (3 x 20)

E.) Dumbbell Shrugs (3 x 12) – Shrug up and back, not up and forward.

Day 168

A.) Bench

3 x Max Rep Barbell Bench Press at 60% of 1RM

B.) 4 Rounds of:

Max reps of Strict C2B Pull ups in 2 minutes
Rest 1 minute
Max reps of Push Press (165/115) in 2 minutes  

Barbell taken from the floor, no racks.
Rest 1 minute

C.) Rehab High Hang Muscle Snatch (3 x 10)demo 

One thing not mentioned in the video; once the elbows go high and outside don’t let them descend as you turn over. Work the external rotation with the humerus (upper arm) parallel to the ground.

D.) Dumbbell Shrugs (3 x 12-15) 

Shrug up and back, not up and forward.

Day 151

Max-Effort Upper Body

"Not much about the max-effort movement has changed since my original article was published. I still prefer a 3-5 rep max (RM) - as opposed to a 1RM - for my skinny bastards. The one thing that has changed – you’ll notice this later on in this article - is the second movement on max-effort upper body day. We recently started having our athletes perform two high-rep sets of an exercise immediately following the max-effort movement.

This high-rep movement is usually an exercise that’s closely related to the max-effort movement. For example, if our athletes performed a 3RM in the bench press, their second exercise may be two sets of dumbbell benches. We don’t do this all the time, but it’s a new “twist” in our templates that wasn’t covered in previous articles." 

- Joe Defranco

A.) Max-Effort Exercise – work up to a max set of 3-5 reps in one of the following exercises:

• Thick bar or regular barbell bench press
• Barbell floor press
• Rack lockouts / Suspended chain lockouts
• Incline barbell bench press (regular grip or close grip)
• Close-grip bench press (index finger on smooth part of bar)
• Weighted chin-ups
• Board presses or foam presses
• Chain bench press (*recommended for not-so-skinny bastards)
• Band bench press (*recommended for not-so-skinny bastards)
• Reverse band bench press (*recommended for not-so-skinny bastards)

B.) Supplemental Exercise – perform 2 sets of max reps in one of the following exercises. 

(Choose a weight you can perform for 15-20 reps on the 1st set. Use the same weight for both sets and rest 3-4 minutes between sets).

• Flat DB bench press (palms in or out)
• Incline DB bench press (palms in or out)
• DB floor press (palms in)
• Barbell push-ups (wearing weighted vest)
• Blast strap push-ups (wearing weighted vest)
• “Criss-cross” chain push-ups
• “Triceps death”
• Chin-ups (don’t perform these if you chose to do weighted chin-ups for your first exercise)

C.) Horizontal pulling / Rear delt superset - Superset one exercise from “Group 1” with one exercise from “Group 2.” Perform 3-4 supersets of 8-12 reps of each exercise.

Group 1

• DB rows
• Barbell rows
• Seated cable rows (various bars)
• T-bar rows
• Chest supported rows

Group 2

• Rear delt flyes
• Scarecrows
• Face pulls
• Seated DB “power cleans”
• Band pull-aparts

D.) Traps – Perform 3 – 4 sets of 8-15 reps of one of the following exercises:

• DB shrugs
• Barbell shrugs
• Safety squat bar shrugs
• Behind the back barbell shrugs

E.) Elbow flexor exercise - Perform 3-4 sets of 8-15 reps of one of the following exercises:

• Barbell curls (regular or thick bar)
• DB curls (standing)
• Seated Incline DB curls
• Hammer curls
• Zottmann curls
• Iso-hold DB curls

Here's what we did:

A.) Thick Bar Bench Press (Fat Gripz)

- Work up to 5RM

B.) Incline DB  Bench Press (2 x max)

C1.) Seated Row 4 x 12

C2.) TRX Scarecrow 4 x 12

D.) DB Shrugs 3 x 10

D1.) Barbell Curls 3 x 10

D2.) Rope Tricep Push-Down 3 x 15

Day 136

A.) Max Effort Exercise - work up to a max set of 3-5 reps:

Bench Press

B.) Supplemental Exercise – perform 2 sets of max reps 

(Choose a weight you can perform for 15-20 reps on the 1st set. Use the same weight for both sets and rest 3-4 minutes between sets).

DB Flat Bench Press 

C.) Horizontal pulling / Rear delt superset - 

(Perform 3-4 supersets of 8-12 reps of each exercise.)

Seated cable rows x 8-12

- rest 30 seconds

Face pulls x 12

-rest 30 seconds

D.) Joe D's "3-6-12" Badass Biceps Builder

1.) Eccentric Chin-ups (close, underhand grip): 3 reps, 10sec. each lowering

2.) 1½ rep Incline Dumbell Curls: 6 reps

3.) Band Curls: 12 reps

- Rest 10-15s between each exercise. 

- Rest 3 minutes between each tri-set.
- Repeat for (3) tri-sets.

- DEMO

Day 127 (Westside Barbell Throwback)

A little Westside Barbell Repetition Upper Body throwback:

A.) DB Incline Bench Press (4 x 12)

B1.) Neutral Grip Lat Pull-Down (4 x 10)
B1.) Face Pull (4 x 12)

C.) DB Seated Military Press (4 x 8)

D1.) Hammer Curls (3 x 10)
D2.) DB Tricep Extension (3 x 10)

E.) 100 total Band Pull-Aparts

Off Season: Day 75

Strength

A.) Strict Overhead Press (Rest 2 minutes between sets.)

* Set 1 – 5 reps @ 50%

* Set 2 – 5 reps @ 60%
* Set 3 – 5 reps @ 70%
* Set 4 – 3 reps @ 85-90%
* Set 5 – 3 reps @ 85-90%
* Set 6 – 3 reps @ 85-90%
* Set 7 – 10 reps @ 55-65%

Choose the same load for all three sets of 3 reps. The load used should be challenging to successfully press for three, but if you have more than one failed rep it is too heavy.

Superset

B.) DB Bench Press 4 x 8, climbing

- Rest 30s

B2.) Seated Row 4 x 10, across

- Rest 60s

Superset

C.) DB Decline Pull-Over 3 x 8, across

- Rest 30s

C2.) Band Pull-Aparts 3 x 15

- Rest 60s

Conditioning

D.) Row 

8 x 500m, 1 minute rest between efforts

Off Season: Day 71

A.) Deficit Deadlift: Work up to a 3RM

– Stand on 45# plates. These can be done as sumo or traditional pulls.(Demo)

B.) Olympic Pause Squats 3 x 6

– Use high bar rack position and pause for 2 seconds in the hole of each squat. (Demo)

C.) Cable Pull Throughs 3 x 12

Sub any of the following (using same rep range):

- Swiss ball back bridge + leg curl (Demo)

- Glute-ham raises
- Romanian Deadlifts

- Russian KB Swings (heavy)

D.) Double DU “Annie”

For time:

100-80-60-40-20 Double Unders
50-40-30-20-10 Abmat sit ups 

E.) Recovery Row

7 mins of easy rowing

F.) Couch Stretch

Spend 3 minutes/side

Off Season: Day 39

Westside for Skinny Bastards, Part III

Max-Effort Upper Body

"Not much about the max-effort movement has changed since my original article was published. I still prefer a 3-5 rep max (RM) - as opposed to a 1RM - for my skinny bastards. The one thing that has changed – you’ll notice this later on in this article - is the second movement on max-effort upper body day. We recently started having our athletes perform two high-rep sets of an exercise immediately following the max-effort movement.

This high-rep movement is usually an exercise that’s closely related to the max-effort movement. For example, if our athletes performed a 3RM in the bench press, their second exercise may be two sets of dumbbell benches. We don’t do this all the time, but it’s a new “twist” in our templates that wasn’t covered in previous articles." 

- Joe Defranco

A.) Max-Effort Exercise – work up to a max set of 3-5 reps in one of the following exercises:

• Thick bar or regular barbell bench press
• Barbell floor press
• Rack lockouts / Suspended chain lockouts
• Incline barbell bench press (regular grip or close grip)
• Close-grip bench press (index finger on smooth part of bar)
• Weighted chin-ups
• Board presses or foam presses
• Chain bench press (*recommended for not-so-skinny bastards)
• Band bench press (*recommended for not-so-skinny bastards)
• Reverse band bench press (*recommended for not-so-skinny bastards)

B.) Supplemental Exercise – perform 2 sets of max reps in one of the following exercises. 

(Choose a weight you can perform for 15-20 reps on the 1st set. Use the same weight for both sets and rest 3-4 minutes between sets).

• Flat DB bench press (palms in or out)
• Incline DB bench press (palms in or out)
• DB floor press (palms in)
• Barbell push-ups (wearing weighted vest)
• Blast strap push-ups (wearing weighted vest)
• “Criss-cross” chain push-ups
• “Triceps death”
• Chin-ups (don’t perform these if you chose to do weighted chin-ups for your first exercise)

C.) Horizontal pulling / Rear delt superset - Superset one exercise from “Group 1” with one exercise from “Group 2.” Perform 3-4 supersets of 8-12 reps of each exercise.

Group 1

• DB rows
• Barbell rows
• Seated cable rows (various bars)
• T-bar rows
• Chest supported rows

Group 2

• Rear delt flyes
• Scarecrows
• Face pulls
• Seated DB “power cleans”
• Band pull-aparts

D.) Traps – Perform 3 – 4 sets of 8-15 reps of one of the following exercises:

• DB shrugs
• Barbell shrugs
• Safety squat bar shrugs
• Behind the back barbell shrugs

E.) Elbow flexor exercise - Perform 3-4 sets of 8-15 reps of one of the following exercises:

• Barbell curls (regular or thick bar)
• DB curls (standing)
• Seated Incline DB curls
• Hammer curls
• Zottmann curls
• Iso-hold DB curls

Here's what we did:

A.) Thick Bar Bench Press (Fat Gripz)

- Work up to 5RM

B.) Single Arm Alternating DB Bench Press (4 x 10)

C1.) DB One-Arm Row 4 x 10

C2.) TRX Scarecrow 4 x 12

D1.) Strict Stationary Dips 4 x 10

D2.) Barbell Curls 4 x 10