How to Construct the “Perfect” Training Plan (and Get Jacked…Like White Goodman)

It’s pretty simple actually.

Just follow these step-by-step guidelines:

Step 1: Start training.

It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable and/or experienced you are with strength training. Just get in the gym, and start doing something.

Step 2: Keep track – via training journal – of what you’re doing.

This is a crucial step…so DON’T skip it. Write down your exercises, sets, reps, personal records, how you felt during each training session, and anything else you think that you might want in there (even the hot girl’s phone number that always comes in the gym on Tuesday’s at 3:00).

Step 3: Keep doing whatever it is you’re doing until you stop making progress.

Until you stop making progress, DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING.

Step 4: Once you stop making progress, analyze your training journal, and try to figure out what worked, and what didn’t work.

If it worked, keep it in your program.  If it didn’t work, eliminate it.

Step 5: Whatever you eliminated from your training plan, replace it with something that’s more sound and/or you think will provide better results.

This is called “experimentation,” and is the centerpiece of program design.

**Once you’ve completed these five steps, you start back at the beginning, and repeat the process over, and over, and over again until, well…FOREVER.**

There is no “perfect” training plan.

There are only “better” training plans.

And the only way to construct a better training plan is by getting under the bar, training your ass off, having the self-awareness to figure out what’s working and not working, and then having the willingness to change course if the one you’re on isn’t providing the results you’re looking for.