Chad's face is sort of like cheese cake, simply by looking at it I immediately become happy and filled with joy.

Great strength training info as always, but when will you put out a video on managing the effects of having piercing blue eyes and how it relates to excessive adoration?

Juggernaut bringing real science to fitness. Not like most channels with their damn broscience and core workout videos and clickbaits. Amazing material, has inspired me a lot because I am not a pro but I struggle with sleep and depression issues that come and go, and definitely fatigue management has become a problem. Thanks a lot!

Im an intermediate lifter and I implemented this after I watched his "creating a strength block" video it's been huge for me. Thanks for the information

Hello Team JTS! Writing this not under the most recent post but somehow I'm sure you're gonna notice this message. First, thanks to all of you for sharing such valuable info on the most interesting topics in strength training and recovery. Second, special thank you to Chad for his Juggernaut method 2.0 book. Has anyone ever told you that they got "A" for their course work in uni because they used information from your book to create it? Now I'm telling you! The strategies of developing explosive power in strength athletes shown in the book helped me so much! Cheers and greetings from Russia!

It's amazing how logically thought out programing makes sense and is easy to accept.

Chad you make this world a better place to lift! Thanks man

These are the best videos on the net! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you for this video. I don't know why I didn't figure this out for my self because it makes so much sense and explains a lot of what I have experienced over my many years of training.

These charts are incredible. Thanks for the great strategies... Can't wait to try them!

Outstanding, Thank you.

most profesional analysis i heard on youtube. Very good sir.

Thanks for the awesome video chad! Really helped alot with my training!

This is an amazing video. Thank you so much for putting this out.

Mr. Chad, this just makes sense to me. I ordered your book lastnight and I hope that it talks more about this. I'd love to try a program like this that's smartly designed.

I swear I always think i'm a great coach and then I see how clever Chad's programming is and want to stab myself in the eye

This is pure gold!

Thank you JTS ! It’s my dream to learn proper programming and you are making it possible!

oh what a awesome piece of information you gave out there :) thank you

IMO this would've been much simpler to explain with a spreadsheet. Answered my question as I'm new to daily undulating, incidentally programmed in an almost identical fashion to the first workout. Great content as usual👌

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

That's so much informative !! ❤ Thanks a lot

Explained clearly thanks

This is fantastic....much appreciated !

This is pretty advanced stuff but I still got something from it eg splitting the deadlift into two, one day going for intensity, another day volume, technique. It makes perfect sense since too much volume at lighter weight means I'm beat when attempting the heavy stuff on the same day

Great video CWS.

As an engineer who studies a lot, barely gets 8 hours of quality sleep, high stress job and family, this video is definitely what I needed to help structure my workouts in a way that helps me manage fatigue which I was encountering a lot when I was working out in a linear fashion. Thanks chad!!!

outstanding video

I've been waiting for a video from you on undulating periodisation for ages! So glad it's finally here haha so in depth as always

Extremely important concept

Lifting information at its highest quality.....

Amazing information for people who make their own programs, like me!

Chad: This has got to be your best ever! I've personally pondered on doing fullbody (I know your thoughts on fullbody) with that "out of sync" set-up, where you never have more than one heavy lift per day; rather, you have a light lift, a medium, and a heavy lift per day, as two heavy lifts have always seemed to me counter productive, but it depends on recuperative capabilities, size, strength and degree of advancement. And having two or three light lifts per day/session seems needlessly wasteful of time and energy.

Thanx for sharing and explaining this very important information about programming.

Always Great videos from chad wesley smith!

That was really helpful. Well explained sir.

Fantastic content! Thanks Chad!

Chad looks like he is looking to peak at christmas. Great content as per usual.

thank you for this great video! deload takes one week of this 4 week cycle?

I'm in the process of writing my first powerlifting program for myself. This video has helped me alot as well as your book. Do you do indevidualized programs for lifters? It would be awesome to not only go through one of your programs but learning from it.

I just subscribe after this video, Im thankful for the video Chad. I created my own program based on linear periodization and Im having trouble managing fatigue. It feels like the weights im lifting now are "too heavy" to follow pure linear style programming. I will try my best to finish this block decreasing the volume a bit and after my deload, I will follow your intermediate periodization where i will do my workouts: -high: 85% or above -medium: 60-80% -low: 60% or less Does anyone have an Idea of the rep ranges in those days?

Im buying the book :) nice video!

This is gold. I always struggled with fatique management while trying to incorporate max effort lifts of these 3 excercises into a week. I would like to ask, however, how do you incorporate drop sets into strength phase (repetitons by sets, rpe?) Thank you!

How would you program in accessory work? Just using a linear scale since it's not as taxing?

Great video as always! If you have a lifter that doesn't have an optimal amount of time between competitions say regionals and nationals (~10 weeks) would this undulating still be optimal? As it wouldn't accumulate as much volume as a pure linear program.

Alright, alright. Take my money, I caved and bought the book.

This may be one of the best descriptions of Phase Potentiation that I’ve come across. It’s hard to find something that makes as much sense as this lol

great video learned alot

Awesome sauce

I'm not sure there's anyone in the industry even remotely as intelligent as CWS. Brilliant video as are all of the others from JTS. This should have millions of views.

Chad, it looks like you would make a great weatherman!

Hello Chadley, is there any where we can get the graphs you included. I could screenshot them but they probably would be a bit pixelated. Much Appreciated

hey great info. when programming this way how do you rate the levels of the workouts? overall volume(Met Minutes?) or are we doing lighter weights higher reps?

Very informative

By applying UDP I've finally managed to hit a 225 lbs Bench and 155 lbs strict OHP! It's amazing. (@ 140 lbs bw).

This graph thing is genius

When doing my programming should my accessories also alternate intensity and volume or should they always be higher volume 10-15 rep range? If I should alternate how should I do that?

This is amazing! But if one wanted to add a OHP workout, how would that look/ work?

Chad do you do single lift coaching? i don't have time to do all 3 i am going for a squat record so that is my main focus while maintaining my deadlift

With the advanced model, do you de-load the athlete at the week 2 (highest intensity) numbers or the final week numbers?

Hi . There you mentioned an `off week`. So my question is, do I still need to take the recommended amount of protein in an off week as well ? I am 75kg (165pound ) and I take around 150g of protein everyday as suggested. Is it ok if I dont take protein powder , or take less amount of protein in my off (deload) weeks ? thanks a lot

Does Thoughtful Pursuit go into more details about both of the programs mentioned in this video?

where should someone goes after deloading? For instance in 18.07. After the first DELOAD ( I assume one week of deloading), should the lifter return to a higher load compared to his last LOW or something else?

So I just started the juggernaut method. Do i need to instill the high, medium, low right now or afterwards.

It seems counterintuitive to have a lighter second week in a "three up, one down" model. I find it interesting that peaks in intensity don't align exactly with each week. This isn't something I had considered. Do you guys offer a coaching or programming class? I'm surprised that all the information you give out is free! You're such an amazing resource for this community.

Are there any full body, 3x splits for this periodization?

and when u finish this 4 weeks,how u setup next strenght week? add weight? or volume?

plz do a video where u have a chart like this for PEAKING block...

is it safe to say for your hypertrophy block a "high" workout difficulty is based on volume? and can a "low" workout be higher intensity but lower on volume in this phase?

is the difference between high and low workout only in weights on the bar or changing the reps also??

I would love to see a breakdown but in the context of weightlifting. It seems it would be harder to apply?

Would it be possible to adapt the JTS method 2.0 to the intermidiate UP strategy?

Would it make any sense to apply a similar approach to training which is not as fatigue sensitive - like hypertrophy training? To me, this makes only sense if multiple SRA curves need to be maintained - in hypertrophy training I can not see any need for this (maybe low days for technique). I think the medium day in strength training adresses the muscle maintenance, which wouldn't be needed in hypertrophy blocks (strength is maintained through hypertrophy training by itself). Is this correct?

In the intermediate model, should total fatigue increase more or less linearly throughout the first three weeks of the meso? In other words, should difficult workouts be dispersed as evenly as possible?

Fwiw, the link to your book in the description is broken.

Who would have thought there's so much science and shit for getting strong. Makes my head spin.

I want this guy to do my programming. I bought a “workout program” of off Larry wheels, but it doesn’t incorporate or utilize periodization or anything like that. It’s just week one do this or then week 2 do that... this guy seems so knowledgeable about the topic.

How do you peak this style of periodization into a meet? so what im saying is, what does it look like coming into week 9-12 in comparison to week 1-3

Hey Chad, great video! I have some questions though. Would you consider training Bench & Squat 3 times per week (keeping deadlifts at 2 times a week) too much? For example: let's say you add a low day (the same as a low day for DL) for squatting and benching for practising technique, would you consider this as too much to be doing in one week or even unnecessary? Asking this as an intermidiate lifter. I'm creating a strength block at the moment and had in mind to train the squat and bench 3 times a week and the deadlift 2 times a week. Using 4s at 80-90% (building up 2.5% every week for 4 weeks), 5s at 75-85% and 6s at 70-80% and making use of DUP.The 4s are competition style lifts, 5s are too and 6s are variations. Using 4s and 6s for my DL. Not doing a lot of secondary movements on my training days except for back and some shoulder work. Could this be a good set up? Thank you in advance and thanks for the great content!

Most logical to start week in squat becose it's most important because you can squat most that way you add most to you're total

Man as soon as you said "shift work" I knew this was for me. I work a 24/72 schedule and managing that with getting my lifts in with enough volume ie my biggest problem. The solution I came up with was doing squat and back same day then shoulders bench next day, then hitting deadlifts every other week. I dont think its sustainable tho

Recently found out about undulating pyramidization

Thanks for your time and effort big man

How would you choose weights from meso to meso?

I've been wondering, if you don't have any plans to compete, should you still incorporate a peaking phase into your training? Does it make any sense to just keep alternating between a hypertrophy phase and a strength phase, while skipping that 3rd phase of peaking?

Chad, I watched your Strength Block video and was going to apply it to my training but I consider myself as more of an intermediate. Would the intermediate block follow the same percentages and rep / set schemes as you laid out in your Strength Block video? Also, with regards to the Linear 2nd deadlift session, would that be the same deadlift as the main Weds workout or would a variation (SLDL or Romanians) be acceptable?

Is this applied to the repetition method in conjugate training?

I notice you have more lows and less medium days for bench for your 4 up 1 down model. Why?

Hello Team JTS! I only got one interrogant. How do you asses the dificulty of the trainings? With percentage of max repetition? If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks a lot!

Conjugate would be like a high medium strategies ?

What are the % of loads like in the Low medium high range?

great video, super helpful stuff. side note - you have the same voice as Ben Affleck.

I'd be interested in a program applying these principles and methods.

For the high medium low structure, where do you start off after the deload. Do start higher than ur last initial low?

YAAAASSSS!!!!

how would you put this together for a 4 day a week routine? seems like a second Deadlift session makes it hard unless you pair them heavy squat/light deadlift, light squat/heavy deadlift on a Mon/thu

when would the Scientific principles of strength training would be available in Amazon?And what about reps and sets?

Is DUP the same as variable loading?

Hey Chad , as a shiftworker what type of training is the best for me on mainly Compound lifts ? Gr. Dave from The Netherlands .

hey Juggernaut Training Systems i know this is more of a beginner question but I was wondering if you could make a video on how to program overhead pressing into your programs. ive recently become very interested in strength training and I know that OHP has many benefits but im unsure as to how it should be programmed.