re: The Greyskull Methods- A Primer

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How do we know whether we should cut or bulk? Is there a Greyskull ruling on this?

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Why not both? read this

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What is the Greyskull way to cut? Whats the Greyskull way to bulk?

How should programming change for each? Is lifting still prioritised over cardio during cutting?

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Cutting and bulking is more diet based than anything. For cutting we ramp up the conditioning from the normal twice weekly to 3 a week. We ramp up jump rope sessions to 3 times weekly.

But first we start doing 39 min fasted walks 6 days a week. Add 10 min per week until you are getting 360 a week. And we start pursuing villain challenge #1.

After those stop working we add the conditioning and the jump rope sessions I talked about above.

For diet for recomp, we start at the following

Calories-12xbw
Protein-50-60%
Carbs- no more than 100g a day either first two meals or around workout.
Fat- makes up the rest.

As we stall we layer in more conditioning. We can also remove carbs from rest days and also eventually lower calories to a minimum of 9xbw over times.

Read the lp book, ripped to shreds and lci book for more info on this.


For bulking we cut conditioning to a max of twice weekly max ten min hard sessions. We continue to keep fasted walks to keep fat at Bay and to stimulate the appetite. For diet read the book swole but essentially we start at 1.5x be on protein and work it up to 2xbw. We eat carbs after the workout and in the morning. We add olive oil to our shakes if extra calories are needed once progress stalls.

In other words eat meat like a damn man including tons of damn steak.

For lifting we continue to run the lp and we push the shite out of our selfs. If we need to bring up certain body parts we train smart to do so. See the bringing up the back and bringing up the arms articles.

Eventually after exhausting ever bit of the low including eventually going down to one money set we eventually move to a dependent reverse pyramid training scheme setting even more rep records along the way. After we stall on that or if we need to bring up certain areas still, we start using some of the principles like pre exhaust that he talks about in the powerbuilding book. Eventually we move to a rest pause scheme.

Overall though we make sure we keep a log book, give the weights, bodyweight exercises and the conditioning hell by beating the log book and then we manipulate variables to achieve the goals we are striving for.