re: The Greyskull Methods- A Primer

777 are you planning on doing any other program write ups?

Anyone got access to JP's articles from his old site? In particular, I'm looking for one called something like Bringing Up the Back or maybe Building the Back. He references it in the 3rd edition of the Greyskull LP book (in another article called Stuff the Sleeves).

Just curious what the template looks like.

You happen to have the tactical barbell stuff still on your drive? I'm looking at that or paying for soflete.

Email sent, thanks

Got it, thanks for all the help. Do you have any thoughts on tactical barbell? I've looked at a few overviews and they seem positive

Ran it (Operator template, black conditioning) for a few months in the summer after the ‘Rona layoff once I got my home gym setup. My experience was that I lost a lot of size and strength and ultimately ended up spinning my wheels and not making any progress with my numbers or physique. I’m willing to lay most of the blame on the ‘Rona layoff...I really wish I had gone back to LP (SS or Greyskull), skipped my cut, and artificially recreated the conditions of my “noob gains.”

Personally, I found it simultaneously boring and trying to do too much all at the same time. Largely depends what your goals are, I guess. It really may be great for people in the military/LE who need to be proficient in several disciplines but for a civilian desk jockey like me, there are programs/approaches I prefer more. It’s no secret that I think CrossFit is stupid, largely because of all the silly crap they try to push in order to create the illusion of complexity. TB feels that way to me in some respects. All the obnoxious naming conventions aside (also an annoying feature of CroasFit), I think the advice that people will gain plenty of hypertrophy through swinging around kettlebells and carrying sandbags is unhelpful. All in all, the lifting portion really seems to take a backseat to the other conditioning components.

One passage in particular stood out to me; the author gives an anecdote about the fittest person he knows lifts weights 3x per week and does hill runs on off days - praising this approach as a “cyborg factory.” Then a few pages later the author is laying out a bunch of random conditioning protocols that are needlessly complex like:

“This one is called the Manhood Mutilator:

- 400 KB swings
- 20 jumping jacks
- sprint 100m carrying a puppy
- 10 burpees
- repeat 5x”

Haha exactly my thoughts, trying to do to much. Imo better off running the gladiator books from greyskull or running the gslp, maybe even using the template with rpt or 531 then adding everyday conditioning from the conditioning books.

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Lsu777 did you pull the book from the drive account?
I can't seem to find it.

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no some jackass moved all kinds of things around. havent had time to fix, been busy deep diving into the OC search

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incorporating “homework” – frequency chins and push-ups

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If you are not doing the Bodyweight homework, you arent doing greyskull.

I know im preaching to the choir to you on that, but wanted to reiterate.

as far as how to do it, easiest i have found is simply the total work method

pick a total number you want to do for each and do them however you can, whenever you can just making sure each set is very sub max.

raise total number weekly by about 10 on pushups, 2 or 3 on chins. 1 rest day a week.

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Were you ever on JP's original page?

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Yes, didnt post that much. and yea I was on Sams forum. I plan on posting on the patreon when jp sets it up.