re: Pen and Paper Strength App

I would consider grasshopper to be beginner. It reminds me a lot of a high school football program or at least what I used in high school.

I messaged Aaron on instagram and asked about true max or training max and he responded with “It’s a beginner plan so a true max should be fine because the percentages are nothing crazy.”

The percentages are definitely lower so it didn’t make sense to use a training max to me personally either.

I just finished week 1 of Brickhouse remastered. It's a beast. Looking forward to the weekend to recover.

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Finishing up Grasshopper this week. Any recommendations on which one to start next?

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what are your goals?

care to give a review of grasshopper? like change in stats, what you liked, what you hated etc?

got to get that home gym bro lol

Finished up Return of Dr Jacked today- LSU777 asked for a review, so here we go.

Likes-

I like volume and this has plenty
Very much a split- allows to slay your big lift for the day.
Lots of arm work
Front squats
Love how overhead press and Arnold press are incorporated.
arse kicking days are usually followed/led with “easier” days
Shrugs: my traps getting that slope
Kicks your arse. Felt sick multiple times

Dislikes-

His warmups are meh- you must make time to get your mobility in
Wish there was more dead’s, I’m sure he something to fix this.
Wall sits & rdl - lol it’s a love/hate thing
No programmed conditioning. I walked a lot and hit a 10 hard Tabata peloton once a week on leg days.

Results- I posted an InBody result last week, but I’ll summarize here as well.

Weight as of 1/13 = unchanged at 222
Muscle mass = + 4 lbs to 106.5
Fat mass down = - 5 lbs to 40.8
Body fat % = -2.2% to 18.4

I'm scanning again next week. I’ll update
Thenz

Strength- I didn’t fail a lift. This is big because as I initially looked through the program and calculated my weights there was a few “no way” moments.
I'm traveling this week and plan on testing maxes first of next as my gym has a 1000lb club challenge they started. My numbers weRe based of the following:

Bench - 330
Squat - 380
Dead - 450 ( this is prob ambitious )

I'll update with my new numbers

Visual-

Def can see a change in mirror and lost a belt a belt loop. If I got down to 15% bf and kept the muscle mass, is consider myself pretty jacked for a 44 yo.

If you have the time to devote 5 days a week, do it. My wake up call is 0330 everyday to make it happen.

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Finished up Return of Dr Jacked today- LSU777 asked for a review, so here we go.

Likes-

I like volume and this has plenty
Very much a split- allows to slay your big lift for the day.
Lots of arm work
Front squats
Love how overhead press and Arnold press are incorporated.
arse kicking days are usually followed/led with “easier” days
Shrugs: my traps getting that slope
Kicks your arse. Felt sick multiple times

Dislikes-

His warmups are meh- you must make time to get your mobility in
Wish there was more dead’s, I’m sure he something to fix this.
Wall sits & rdl - lol it’s a love/hate thing
No programmed conditioning. I walked a lot and hit a 10 hard Tabata peloton once a week on leg days.

Results- I posted an InBody result last week, but I’ll summarize here as well.

Weight as of 1/13 = unchanged at 222
Muscle mass = + 4 lbs to 106.5
Fat mass down = - 5 lbs to 40.8
Body fat % = -2.2% to 18.4

I'm scanning again next week. I’ll update
Thenz

Strength- I didn’t fail a lift. This is big because as I initially looked through the program and calculated my weights there was a few “no way” moments.
I'm traveling this week and plan on testing maxes first of next as my gym has a 1000lb club challenge they started. My numbers weRe based of the following:

Bench - 330
Squat - 380
Dead - 450 ( this is prob ambitious )

I'll update with my new numbers

Visual-

Def can see a change in mirror and lost a belt a belt loop. If I got down to 15% bf and kept the muscle mass, is consider myself pretty jacked for a 44 yo.

If you have the time to devote 5 days a week, do it. My wake up call is 0330 everyday to make it happen.

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sounds like you killled it. Should be able to knock that 1000x club out easy.

what program you going to next?

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wonder if PPSA will make us a package seal for everything

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They used to be cheaper. And you could buy bundles of them to reduce the price per program.

I want to buy a lot of the new and remastered programs, but I just can’t bring myself to pay $200 for programs. The high quality and affordable price is what attracted me most to these programs in the first place. Did anybody else notice the prices increase? Or is it just the absence of the bundle deals?

Not blaming Aaron. They are fun, well put together programs and he has to make his money.

19.99 is what they have pretty much always been.

I suggest just buying 1 or 2 per month.

I do think yall will like pool season.

I'll have to write something up on it. I forgot to write anything on silverback.

Lol Nas they were always 19.99 from what I know. Everyone has to raise prices in the Biden economy though

I think he is releasing superset as a remastered version soon.