re: The Greyskull Methods- A Primer

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 this point I knew that it was time for him to learn a very valuable and game-changing lesson about training.

Despite my many efforts to clarify this point, he was still of the opinion that the FM and other bodyweight work was to be thought of merely as “assistance work”, designed to positively augment the more important, foundational layer of the program consisting of the two to three days per week in the gym spent lifting weights in the GSLP format. He would soon experience an inverting of this logic that will serve him immensely well in the coming months, one that those who have trained with me personally over the years have understood as law by shear indoctrination.

It is imperative to consider your strength training in the gym as the “assistance” work to, and layered over top of your daily bodyweight work if you are to truly maximize your results from your training efforts.

Had it been a video call, I am certain I could have actually seen the light bulb go off over this client’s head.

No longer would he experience stress or frustration over not being able to train due to his erratic schedule. His logistical concerns for being able to conduct a workout for the day were now reduced to potentially having to get a bit creative in locating or fashioning a chin up bar on which to do his chinning work if the day called for it.

Since his perceived inability to be consistent in his training as a result of the perceived obstacle presented by his schedule had previously brought him down mentally with regards to the entire subject of training, he was now liberated from his shackles, and ready to make some significant progress.

I challenged him with a question that I ask of many clients, something to the tune of:

“If you did X amount of pushups each and every day, and X amount of chin-ups, do you suppose you would see a change in your body in eight weeks?”

Of course, like all, his answer was a resounding “Yes”.

I then asked him if he thought that adding in six or eight strength training sessions in the gym, using the GSLP format, per month would produce an even more dramatic result when layered on top of the existing bodyweight work.

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