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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Explosive Training Motor Units Neural Adaptation

Rate Coding

PHASES Base Phase Development Phase

Peak Phase

TESTING & EVALUATION Evaluation Card

REST, RECOVERY, & NUTRITION Sleep Recovery Routine

Macronutrients

Supplements

Meal Plans

Food Substitutions

METHODICS Speed Training Methods

Lifting Methods

How To Follow TXT

TOTAL XPLOSIVE TRAINING SYSTEM


Introduction

Everyone has the will to win, but not everyone has the will to PREPARE to win.

Bear Bryant

Welcome to Total Xplosive Training, I want to commend you for taking steps in improving your

performance and allowing yourself to pursue your true goals. I want to first say I believe this

system should not take place of your sport specific practice. It should be a compliment to

perfecting and honing in on your skills that are applied to your sport, such as hitting, shooting,

tackling, punching, etc.

All of these should be specifically targeted and practiced as its own; however this regimen will

amplify these skills and enable you to perform them faster, harder, and more efficiently. I

created the program as a straightforward answer to your previous disposition, which is why it is

complete with training the entire body plus recovery. With that being said it is essential that

you follow all components as they are intricately placed in specific order for you to reach

maximum results.

I have created this for you to follow with the bare necessities you find in any gym with no

machines. There is some equipment needed but nothing you couldnt make or find around.

Following this system may be best completed if you have a partner as dedicated as yourself.

My best wishes I send to you on your path to becoming an elite athlete.


Explosive training is a type of training that pertains to athletes and coaches from all walks of

competition and enhances personal performance directly to the particular competition. Any

sport requiring jumping, throwing, striking, accelerating, and changing direction would make

perfect sense to train explosive power due to the degree of sport specificity. Some athletes

can become confused sometimes when training for competition. It should be understood that

as an athlete, we are training the movement not the muscle or isolation of one. Its not a

matter of what your leg muscles look like but rather what they are doing for you in your

competition.

With that being said if we break down the actual events when training explosiveness we can

see it contains two phases like any other lift; eccentric and concentric. The main difference

here is the eccentric or preload phase is followed by concentric phase or contraction phase

which is done as fast and forceful as possible. This type of training improves overall muscular

power, which simply translates to the rate of performance.

How It Works

Without diving into too much physiology but to help you understand, we can learn your

muscles have motor units attached to them which send signals to the muscle from the brain.

When the signal is sent through nerves, motor units contract each and every muscle fiber they

innervate (making your muscles apply movement).

When we train explosiveness we use our Type II fibers or fast twitch fibers, which are exactly

the same fibers we use most in competitions that emphasize fast powerful movements. These


fibers are classified into two groups, IIA and IIB, for our purposes we will be dealing with IIB,

which produce high force/velocity and fatigue quickly. Therefore when we train for power we

send more signals to these fast twitch fibers and the more signals we send (intensity) the more

motor units we are recruiting.

We can look at it like we are activating areas of your muscles that may have never been used

before or may not have been trained properly and this will help improve human performance.

As we continue training in this manner we are able to recruit these particular motor units a lot

faster and more efficiently through a term we call neural adaptation.

TXT is a little different though, as you finally start to adapt to a particular motion we alter the

exercises which will recruit different motor units on the same muscle but maintain activation of

the previous units. This makes perfect sense knowing that in competition most movements

are improvised as an action or reaction and needs to be sharp and coordinated.

Recruiting these units is shown to improve coordination because we have a better control of

our muscles when we are activating them more often. In addition, this program compliments

explosive training with other methods to in turn maximize power output as a whole.

As well as neural adaptation we can look at the rate coding mechanism and how this is shown

to be improved through this training. Rate coding can simply be termed as the frequency that

those signals are sent to your muscles from your brain. If we are able to improve the amount

of muscles activated (motor units recruited) and how fast we get those muscles working (rate

coding) we can severely improve your overall performance as an athlete by increasing your

rate of force development (how fast you can produce force). However with this we see that

training for explosiveness does not necessarily translate to absolute strength or 1 rep max of

particular lifts, so in this program we added a strict balance to increase absolute strength as

well as increasing the force and velocity at which we can perform it at and doing it specifically

to mimic movements or muscles activated within competition so we can utilize your strength as

soon as this new force is developed.

The TXT workouts are specifically dialed in an exact order in order to manipulate these fibers


and recruitment patterns mentioned to ultimately help alter your genetics. Almost every athlete

needs to display strength and power but most of all needs to be ready to perform any

movement pattern (regarding their sport) at any given time.

To mimic this we broke down the main movement patterns and attack these muscles/motions

with precision. When we break down the kinesiology of an athlete the most important, but

most overlooked groups of muscles are lacked when trained for sport specificity, such as the

hips and posterior chain muscles. Everyone wants to have a bigger bench it seems, which is a

good upper body movement but is inferior to other movements.

Hip extension, hip flexion, empowering/absolute strength and lengthening of the posterior

chain can directly affect your overall performance. We take these throughout the system and

expose them to various methods, then constantly train them to fire properly in the program in

order to prepare the body like a machine for any task needed as an athlete.

When we add all these components together in our training I learned through real experience

that we can not only overturn our previous athletic performance but we can take it to another

level and reach heights our genetics werent supposed to. (Because lets face it we werent

born with these genetics.)

Bottom line is we train as athletes to IMPROVE THE PLAYERS ABILITY TO MAKE THE PLAY.


Phases

I can accept failure, I cant accept not trying

Michael Jordan

TXT is broken into 3 phases each being 4 weeks in length, in which you will need to complete

in order to achieve maximum results, Base, Developmental, and Peak. These stages allow

you to transition your training directly to your sport. Its a method that allows you to

progressively build on performance while maintaining prior results.

Its my method of grouping, Russian conjugated periodization and a little western linear

periodization. For those not familiar with these methods, the easiest way to look at is western

linear is a block method in performance where we transition from periods of hypertrophy-

strength-speed whereas, conjugate we use these all in conjunction. So basically our core lifts

are performed according to the conjugated method and our auxiliary and explosive lifts

progress us through the western linear method of periodization. It forces your body to never

plateau while progressively building strength, speed, and size throughout.

Base Phase: (first 4 weeks) this is just how it sounds; youre going to develop a strong base

in major movements that underline most sports. You will start here with your training. We

need to learn the pattern of some methodics and motions and begin to activate the hips and

posterior chain correctly. In addition, this will emphasize adding as much size and absolute

strength as you can. You will also be developing the correct movement patterns in order to

transition to more technical lifts.


Developmental Phase: (next 4 weeks) stage 2 is next, it is going to increase strength again

and take the strength developed in the Base Phase and apply it to training your explosive

power, which we ultimately want to transition onto the field. As well as developing coordination

through recruitment of motor units while adapting and adding acceleration to the absolute

strength gained.

Peak Phase: (last 4 weeks) here is the last phase where you will be shattering your personal

records. You will be peaking in time for your season or competition at top shape and

performance. We will accomplish this by overlapping the prior phase objectives and testing

your body to the limit while taxing the nervous system before resting. Make sure you record all

your lifts as you will max out on lifts in this phase and compare to your evaluation card.


Testing & Evaluation

Dont let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Reilly

Here is where you will see your progression throughout the program. Fill out the evaluation

card by following the given tests. Like I mentioned before, I strongly advise following TXT with

a partner seeking the same results due to a lot of the program requiring an extra hand.

Down below is the evaluation card, which needs to be done a complete week prior to

beginning the training program. Here are some helpful notes to accurately complete your

evaluation card.

Weight- weigh yourself on the exact same scale for before and after. Wear the exact same

clothes both times and make sure you weigh yourself in the morning upon waking.

Vertical- 1. Place chalk on the tips of your fingers and stand against a wall.

2. Extend your arm; mark the wall with your tips.

3. Next jump as high as possible while marking the wall with your tips.

4. Subtract that measurement from the measurement of your height

That number will be your vertical

Broad- 1. Start with toes behind a line (chalk works)

2. Leap as far forward as possible swinging the arms and staying low

3. Mark the point at which you back heel lands

Measure these and take the best out of 3 jumps

Shuttle- 1. Start in the middle of 10 yards.

2. Run 5 yards one way.

3. Turn travel the full 10 yards across.

4. Finish by turning and ending when running 5 more yards or at the starting line.


10 yard dash- start on your own command and sprint 10 yards. Take best of 3 sprints for your

time.

40 or 60 yard dash- this is a test of your straight away speed (Linear), baseball players run

the 60 and all other sports run the 40. Although I dont swear by this test many scouts do so

make sure you accurately time it.

Bench, Squat, & Clean- allow yourself proper warm up to begin. Next you will want to take 5

to 6 sets of 1 to 3 reps gradually progressing until you cannot perform the load. If you are

unfamiliar with maxing out or 1 rep max, it is just how it sounds we are basically determining

the greatest load that we can perform with the given lift.


EVALUATION CARD: NAME: DATE:

TESTS BEFORE AFTER

Weight (lbs.)

Vertical (explosiveness)

Broad (explosiveness)

Shuttle (agility)

10 yd Dash (acceleration)

40 or 60 yd Dash (speed)

Bench (absolute strength)

Squat (absolute strength)

Clean (strength/explosive)


Rest, Recovery, & Nutrition

Somewhere, out there, he is practicing and when you meet, he will win

Unknown

THIS SECTION IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS YOUR TRAINING!!!

Rest Sleep is essential to your training for your recovery, performance, and overall health benefits.

Sleep is when you allow the tissue you broke down from training to rebuild. It is understood

that your muscles are growing during rest not when we are training, hence why sleep is so

essential. In addition to this, when you sleep your body enters a stage of sleep called REM

basically we can consider this when your dreaming. During this stage, a gland in your head

releases hormones called your pituitary gland which releases Growth Hormone. This hormone

is metabolized by fat and does exactly as it sounds, helps your body to grow. The release of

this slows as we get older so for young athletes you need to take advantage and manipulate

this as much as possible while you can. During this program it is essential you get between 8-

10 hours of sleep including weekends for optimal growth and recovery.

Recovery Although we will be performing most of your recovery through proper nutrition and rest I have

instilled a certain stretching regimen as well as foam rolling (if you have one available) routine

to be performed every night of training days in order to speed up the healing of muscle tissue

damage as well as lengthen the major movement muscles. In addition, stretching is essential


because here we can eliminate muscle imbalances. Many of the movements and motions

performed in competition may be inhibited because the muscle is too tight. While each person

individually may have many imbalances or tight muscles we provide a series of static stretches

plus dynamic warm-up that aids in the correction of these generally tight muscles. Click the

links below to learn the stretches that need to be performed.

RECOVERY STRETCHING FOAM ROLLING

Nutrition

Nutrition may be one of the most important aspects of your training. We need to be eating

more calories than we are using and getting this from the right foods.

Plus there is a fine line in this program between peak performance and overtraining.

Overtraining is basically a condition when your volume and intensity exceed your recovery

capacity. If you follow the rest, recovery, and nutrition you will allow your body to reach new

heights in athletic potential rather than decrease it by becoming overtrained. You can become

overtrained easily if you are not properly nourishing the body with what meal plans I have

provided below. Here is some information on the foods and supplements I suggest. *Note a

lot of the information on nutrition has been provided from the writing of Elliott Hulse, CSCS.

Protein

You are going to need to include some meat in your diet. Meat and eggs are the most plentiful

source for the essential amino acids that are necessary for normal growth and the formation of

hormones. Meat is also loaded in the life enhancing, fat soluble vitamins A and D. as well as


saturated fats and cholesterol that help to produce testosterone and keep your cells healthy.

Please, note that proteins cannot be adequately utilized without fat. I advise against any diet

that is high in protein and low in fat as this can lead to several metabolic problems. In nature

fats always accompany protein. Plus as I mentioned in the rest section, fat is what metabolizes

growth hormone.

Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are your sole source of energy as an athlete, point blank. You need to make

sure you are receiving your energy from the right sources though. Sugars are not the route we

want to take here, so stay away from candy and soda. Sugar robs your body of vital nutrients

and is a displacement food. You can rest assured that if you consume sugar in its depleted

forms you are going to be fat and sick. Sugar makes you fat because excessive amounts of it

are stored in the liver. When the liver is filled to the max with sugar (glycogen) the excess gets

shipped back to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These fatty acids find a nice home right

under your chubby chin, in your love handles, on your breasts (yes, man-breasts) and around

your belly and fat butt. Sugar makes you sick because it suppresses your immune system. In

fact sugar can incapacitate your immune system for up to 48 hours!

*If you feel you need to rid your body of some excess body fat maintain the same amount of

calories as the meal plan recommends and cut your carbs. for the last meal and substitute

more vegetables. Make sure you get your carbs from the sources provided. Key note- Fat

burns in a flame of carbohydrates (for those that believe in excluding carbs. to lose body fat)

Fruits and Veggies

Plant foods contain many secondary nutrients that are essential to vibrant health. But, these

vital nutrients can be destroyed if the foods are not prepared properly. For example, you know

that greens are good for you. You intend to nourish yourself with the life-giving powers of this

super food, so you throw some in a pot to boil for minutes. when the greens are done you

scoop out of the pot what looks like green oatmeal. Its been over cooked. When you cook

most fruits and veggies you destroy many of the enzymes and nutrients that make the food

worthwhile. Fruit juice is another issue, if you are using store bought, pasteurized fruit juices,

rest assure that you are drinking nothing but sugar water. In fact, any fruit that is juiced only


have 1 hour before it begins to lose its value. Make sure you get your sources as natural as

possible.

Creatine

Creatine is a metabolite manufactured by our bodies to supple our muscles with

energy. It is found naturally in red meat, but in very minute amounts. There are

about 7g of creatine in 12oz. of red meat. Creatine is not an anabolic hormone, or a drug of

any kind like a prohormone. Creatine is used to increase muscular

anaerobic endurance and power that will lead to increased muscle gain. Through many

scientific studies, creatine has been found to help build lean muscle mass, increase athletic

performance, increase endurance and speed recovery. It is stored in your muscle cells and

during periods of heavy muscular activity your body converts it into ATP to power your

muscles. Is it harmful? No. The bad press creatine has received in the past due to the

incorrect usage by the consumer, not the product. The only side effect reported is mild upset

stomach and occasional dehydration. Recently, many people have suggested that taking

creatine for long periods could possibly damage the liver. A recent study suggested compared

kidney health of creatine users and non-creatine users for a period of 10 months to 5 years.

The creatine users ingested between 1-20g of creatine every day. Results of the study

indicated that supplementing with creatine monohydrate DID NOT have any adverse effects on

the kidney function or general health in any of the subjects. I recommend either pure white

creatine with nothing added paired with a fruit juice or one that already contains dextrose. Also

follow the label for the loading parameters and how to use it.

Glutamine

Glutamine is the most widely used amino acid in the body. It is used to help build

muscles combat the stresses of exercise or trauma, lack of calories or illness.

Supplementing your diet with extra glutamine will help prevent muscle protein

breakdown while youre asleep or dieting, and help increase protein synthesis.

Glutamine and Alanine are used extensively for muscle growth and repair. Large

amounts are needed. Heavy training can reduce glutamine levels buy up to 50%. If availability

is low, growth and repair are slowed. Your body will preserve it for


more important functions. Muscle growth is low on the list of priorities during times of low

glutamine.

Here are sample meal plans and substitutes for the particular foods. You will take your

bodyweight and multiply it by 20 to get the meal plan to follow.

*BODYWEIGHT (lbs.) X 20 = ______ CALORIES TO BE CONSUMED DAILY **Above each sample plan is the word MASS followed by a number. Round UP to the

meal plan closest to your calculation. So say your 155 lbs, multiply it by 20 and you get

3100 so you would follow the MASS 3200 plan.


*For everyone over 200 lbs. just follow the same meal plan but add the extra calories in your

meals by adding more food.

*Example: 227 lb athlete x 20 = 4540 calories they need to eat in a day with the meal plan

above being the base of the foods to eat.

The meal plan is very specific as you see. I have provided substitutes for each protein,

carbohydrates, and vegetables.


In addition, I used Myoplex because it is a popular and available meal replacement. No sweat

if you dont want to use that use any protein powder and blend it with a banana, oatmeal, and

peanut butter for your meal replacement shake.

Here are some substitutes for the plan provided:

Protein(4oz) PROTEIN (g) CARBS.(g) FAT(g) CALORIES

Chicken 27 0 2 133

Turkey 28 0 2 132

Tuna 30 0 1 140

White Fish 22 0 5 134

Lean Beef 25 0 5 153

Shellfish 20 0 2 105

Eggs 14 3 5 89

Carbs.(1 oz) PROTEIN CARBS. FAT CALORIES

Brown Rice 2 22 .5 103

Oatmeal 5 23 0 132

Sweet Potato 2 30 0 130

White Potato 2 20 0 86

Wheat Bread 2.5 18 1 90

Vegetables PROTEIN CARBS. FAT CALORIES

Green Beans 3 10 0 44

Broccoli 5 9 0 50

Asparagus 6 7 1 40

Spinach 5 6 0 40

Lettuce 1 5 0 22

Mixed Green 6 7 0 42


Methodics

I Think Therefore I Am

Rene Descartes

In this section TXT will explain some intricate roles of each method and why they are

necessary in your explosive training. Here we will dive into why they are important. First

explaining the logic behind your speed, quickness and explosiveness, then proceed into the

lifts. This is not your instruction manual, provided are video for visual instruction so read over

this to understand what you are performing in this system.

Dynamic Warm up- First and foremost before every workout you will perform the same

dynamic warm up. This will enable you to get loose or stretched dynamically (sport specific

stretches) without stretching statically (holding a stretch for a given amount of time). Studies

show static stretching takes away a percentage of power you can perform in your workout

when performed right before your training. So lets leave the static stretching for recovery at

night. In addition, when you properly warm up your entire body you get your blood flowing,

heart rate increasing, and your joints release synovial fluid which acts as a lubricate for your

joints, which will help when training.

Speed, Agility, Quickness, & Explosiveness

**A lot of coaches have many different methods and tricks. All of these speed, explosive, and

quickness drills in TXT are the ones that have been proven to work for our athletes. You may

have heard of the principle that if you train speed slow, you will become slow. Well theres

truth to it, you need to train your body all out as explosive and fast as it can go to become

faster with optimal rest. So think why would repeated 100 yard sprints help? When by the 3rd

sprint you are training your speed at maybe 75%. Most coaches speed training becomes

conditioning. Here are the speed methodics we use. They are not to take over your

conditioning or sport specific craft just as a compliment to better those attributes.


Classic Speed Drills- As we see in the beginning of the base phase we take you through a

series of classic speed drills. These speed drills will get you activating the proper movements

when running along with forcing your body to learn some of the proper techniques through

these methodics. We teach your body to open up your stride length while training your stride

frequency. This is exactly what speed is: SPEED=STRIDE LENGTH x STRIDE FREQUENCY

Plyometric & Ladder Circuit- The ladder will enable you to work on a few skills that need to

be trained. Foot-eye coordination is very important in all aspects as an athlete as well as quick

feet. Foot work trained here will transition tremendously into your competition because we are

priming the nervous system to recruit motor units across a wide variety of motions. Next is the

plyometric circuit, this is extremely important to train your own bodyweight explosively because

this is what you will be throwing around in your sport. This is responsible for making you

extremely explosive dynamically. Its important when performing the plyos that we commit to

and perform the cycle of the legs. When cycle is mentioned, Im pertaining to the natural

motion of the running cycle your legs perform when running properly. This motion is closely

related to that of the motion when you pedal a bicycle.

Basic keys to remember here without over complicating it are to 1. drive the knee forcefully up,


2. then extending that foot out in front while striking the ground on the ball of the foot, 3. then

driving that foot back so the leg becomes fully extended, 4. repeat leg to leg. Make sure the

cycle is properly executed as a natural motion when performing all plyos. Dont feel

overwhelmed this is just an introduction the videos will provide visual instruction.

Jumping- Jumping for max effort is one of the most important methods to train in this program.

TXT takes you through a series of jumping which progressively become harder. These are

essential when training your explosiveness of hips and posterior chain muscles. If we are able

to forcefully train your body to explode on to a 54 box or quickly pop your hips from your

knees, we can then use those same motions and muscles to propel yourself down the court or

across the field. I personally credit jumping to the lowering of my 40/60 as well as lightning

fast game speed.

Me jumping 64 inches

Lifting

**Your lifting will contain a series of methods all designed systematically for you to overall

transition you into the best explosive athlete possible.

Powerlifting Method- These lifts are simply to build your absolute strength or the maximum

weight you can lift for one rep(one rep max). However, these lifts also provide an

overwhelming assistance to the building of your foundation (base) and compliment explosive

lifts. Core strength along with the prime multiple joint movements of the upper and lower body

will be broke down with these particular lifts. They are proven to help the body grow when


trained properly and with heavy weight that tax the nervous system. These are done in low rep

range with really high intensity and high rest periods. Look for deadlifts, heavy squats, and

bench press.

Bodybuilding Method- Included is some bodybuilding in this program in the beginning to add

as much muscle mass as possible. We wanted this program to substitute as your off season

training and this is a great method for hypertrophy (adding size to muscles) in the beginning

stages of your training. Look for these to be high rep, high intensity, with low rest time.

Example would be when the program directs you to superset a series of lifts where you will do

a set of each exercise then move right to the next exercise completing all with no rest in

between, then resting when all are accomplished, then repeat the supersets again.

Olympic Lifts- these may be the lifts that catch the most heat as far as coaches skepticism,

but they are the most important when transitioning to competition along with the next method.


These particular lifts you are training powerful hip extension followed by quick hip flexion.

Thats all we are targeting when it comes to these!!! Many athletes and coaches become

scared of these because of incorrect form and possibility of injury, well go down in weight and

learn them because you tell me an athlete that doesnt need quick, powerful hips? You can

injure yourself doing all kinds of training improperly, but because TXT simply stresses the

action of the hips here we dont have to spend hours dwelling on incorrect form. This may

sound crazy but as long as we are extending then flexing the hips as quickly and powerfully as

possible while maintaining proper foot placement, it doesnt matter what your technique flaws

may be as long as your safety is not compromised. This doesnt mean we can stray too far

from form, I display in the videos how to properly achieve these. I trained solely Olympic lifts

at one point and not only maintained ALL of my speed and explosiveness I GAINED some. If

you plan to skip these you should pack it up because I promise these ground based

explosive lifts will increase your performance tremendously. They should be performed low

rep, with high intensity, and high rest intervals between bouts. These will be your snatches,

cleans, jerks, and pulls.

Explosive Power Method- this pertains to a lot of the manipulating of the fast twitch fibers.

Here you will train the force of the weight you can lift along with the velocity at which you can

perform the lift. When we multiply these, we get power, which is directly needed in all

competition. You need to be strong sure and you need to be fast in sport, well these are the

lifts that help bridge the gap. These are your dynamic lifts which are performed with specific

coaching. Pay close attention as to how to perform them in the video instruction they play the

major role in your explosive training in TXT. These are not necessarily lifts that were created,


what was created was taking the essential multi joint movements and performing them in a

completely different manner to manipulate your fast twitch fibers.

How to follow TXT Total Xplosive Training is an accumulation of these methods carefully placed in meticulous

order for you as an athlete to become the most powerful, fast, and explosive athlete possible.

It is urged for you not to deviate or alter any of the order or placement of the program it is

specifically designed for you to manipulate and extract as much potential from your body in the

exact order it is in by placing emphasis on particular movements and muscles.

Like mentioned earlier there are 3 phases and each phase is 4 weeks long. For example you

have the base phase; you will begin the program here on Monday. Every Monday for the next

4 weeks you will follow the exact routine (reps, sets, etc.).

Record the weight used in the space provided. This is important for you to track consistently

the weights used to make sure progression is obtained.


Performance Points

Percentages-

Most performance based programs base your rep scheme on a series of percentages.

However, TXT urges you to work to your capacity each and every day. We need you to get as

strong as you can as quickly as possible and this is how we push your limits by consistently

pushing heavy weight. In some programs, beginning stages are devoted to hypertrophy so

you would be performing anywhere from 50-65% of your 1 rep max on core lifts. TXT instills

pushing heavy weight on your core lifts while performing hypertrophy with auxiliary lifts with rep

schemes, rest intervals, and exercise selection.

How to choose the right weight. First like we mentioned we determine your 1 rep max in our

core lifts. From this we use our own common sense; if the program calls for 5 sets of 5 reps

we would find a weight that we could do at least 4 and no more than 6. If it becomes too

heavy we lower it and when it becomes too light we increase the load. The rep schemes week

to week are designed for you to increase percentages of your loads. For instance, you have 5

sets of 5 reps the first week, the next week we may use 3 reps which would obviously allow

you to move a heavier load than performed with 5 reps. So basically you want to make sure

that each exercise is performed in correlation with the reps unless specified (Light) or if it has a

specified percentage. So make sure you are performing each methodic with the greatest load

while maintaining the given amount of reps.

Certain lifts will be labeled with a certain percentage, simply follow this based off your 1 rep

max. When the lift has (Light) next to it we want to perform these lifts with a gradual

progression starting at 50% of your 1 rep max.


Rest Interval-

-Each and every speed/explosive movement should be done before your lifting and consist of

a 2-4 minute rest in between each bout.

-When the program calls for you to superset exercises there is to be no rest between each

exercise. When all the exercises are completed then you rest 1-2 minutes between each bout.

-All other lifts should maintain a rest interval of 2-3 minutes in between in order for you to

completely replenish the muscles for the next bout.

Click on each and every exercise title to learn exactly how to perform each exercise

through video instruction. Make sure you read the instruction above each video of how

to perform them as you move from phase to phase. If you need to print the entire

workout or fill in the chart so you can record your weight, distance, times etc

Good Luck make sure you fill out the evaluation card on the very last week of training. When

you have completed all 3 phases take an entire week off and you will be ready for competition.


Base Phase

Week 1 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Set 6

Monday Rep. x Wt. Rep. x Wt. Rep. x Wt. Rep. x Wt. Rep. x Wt. Rep. x Wt.

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ball Drops 3x 3x 3x 3x

Striders (50 yds.) 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x

Falling Sprints (10 yds.) 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x

10 yd. Sprints 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x

Deadlift 8x 8x 8x 8x

Hanging Clean Pull 6x 6x 6x 6x

Med Ball Xplosions

Forward 2x 2x 2x 2x

Rotational 2x 2x 2x 2x

Backward 2x 2x 2x 2x

Sit-Up Circuit 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x

Plyo Circuit (10 yds) 1x

Explosive Bench 6x 6x 6x 6x

Incline Press 8x 8x 8x 8x

Superset

a. Chin-Ups 10x 10x 10x 10x

b. Towel Rows 12x 12x 12x 12x

c. Hyperxplosions 10x 12x 15x 15x

Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Barrier Jumps

One Leg (Each Leg) 4x 4x 4x 4x

Regular 4x 4x 4x 4x

Box Squat 8x 8x 8x 8x

Superset

a. Walking Lunges 10 steps 10 steps 10 steps 10 steps


b. RDL's 8x 8x 6x 6x

Ab Circuit 1 1x 1x 1x

Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x

Plyo Circuit (10yds) 1x

Military Standing 8x 8x 8x

Explosive Close Grip 6x 4x 2x 2x 2x 6x

Superset

a. 21's 1x 1x 1x

b. Rope Extension 10x 10x 10x

c. Barbell Curl 10x 10x 10x

Knees to Bows 10x 10x 10x

Week 2

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ball Drops 3x 3x 3x 3x

Striders (50 yds.) 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x

Falling Sprints (10 yds.) 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x 1x

10 yd. Sprints 2x 2x 2x 2x 2x 2x

Deadlift 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x


Med Ball Xplosions

Forward 2x 2x 2x 2x



Sit-Up Circuit 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x




Incline Press 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x

Superset

a. Chin-Ups 10x 10x 10x

b. Towel Rows 12x 12x 12x

c. Hyperxplosions 15x 15x 15x

Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Barrier Jumps

One Leg (Each Leg) 4x 4x 4x 4x

Regular 4x 4x 4x 4x

Box Squat 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x

Superset



Ab Circuit 1 1x 1x 1x 1x

Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x


Military Standing 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x

Explosive Close Grip 5x 5x 3x 3x 3x

Superset

a. 21's 1x 1x 1x

b. Rope Extension 10x 10x 10x

c. Barbell Curl 10x 10x 10x

Knees to Bows 10x 10x 10x

Week 3

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ball Drops 3x 3x 3x 3x 3x

Striders (50 yds.) 2x 2x 2x 2x

Falling Sprints (10 yds.) 2x 2x 2x 2x

10 yd. Sprints 2x 2x 2x 2x


Deadlift 5x 5x 3x 3x 2x


Med Ball Xplosions

Forward 2x 2x 2x 2x



Sit-Up Circuit 1x 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x



Incline Press 5x 5x 3x 3x 3x

Superset




Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Barrier Jumps

One Leg (Each Leg) 4x 4x 4x 4x 4x

Regular 4x 4x 4x 4x 4x

Box Squat 5x 5x 3x 3x 3x

Superset




Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x




Explosive Close Grip 6x 4x 4x 2x 2x 1x

Superset

a. 21's 1x 1x 1x 1x

b. Rope Extension 12x 12x 12x 12x

c. Barbell Curl 8x 8x 8x 8x

Knees to Bows 8x 8x 8x 8x

Week 4

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ball Drops 3x 3x 2x 2x 1x 1x

Striders (50 yds.) 2x 2x 2x 2x

Falling Sprints (10 yds.) 2x 2x 2x 2x

10 yd. Sprints 2x 2x 2x 2x 2x

Deadlift 6x 4x 4x 2x 2x 1x


Med Ball Xplosions

Forward 2x 2x 2x

Rotational 2x 2x 2x

Backward 2x 2x 2x

Sit-Up Circuit 1x 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x



Incline Press 6x 4x 4x 2x 2x 2x

Superset




Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Barrier Jumps


One Leg (Each Leg) 4x 4x 2x 2x 2x


Box Squat 6x 4x 2x 2x 1x 1x

Superset




Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x



Explosive Close Grip 8x 6x 4x 4x

Superset

a. 21's 1x 1x 1x 1x

b. Rope Extension 12x 12x 12x 12x

c. Barbell Curl 8x 8x 8x 8x

Knees to Bows 10x 10x 10x 10x

Development Phase



Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps

Bodyweight 3x 3x 3x 3x

Weighted 2x 2x 2x 2x

Power Snatch 6x 6x 4x 4x 4x

Hang Cleans (Light) 8x 8x 8x

Clean Pulls 4x 4x 4x

Power Jerk 5x 5x 5x 5x

Sit Up Circuit 1x 1x 1x

Tuesday


Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x


Press (Floor or Band) 8x 8x 8x 8x

Explosive Press Circuit 1x

Superset

a. Chin Ups 8x 8x 8x

b. Face Pulls 10x 10x 10x

c. Incline Alternating 8x 8x 8x

d. 1 Arm Rows 6x 6x 6x

Hyperxplosions 20x 20x 20x

Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Box Jumps

Regular 4x 4x 4x 4x

ESS Jumps 2x 2x 2x 2x

Squat Jumps 4x 4x 4x

Back Squat 8x 8x 8x 8x

Superset

a. Step Ups 6x 6x 6x

b. Hip Thrusts 8x 8x 8x

c. Goodmornings 10x 10x 10x


Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x


Power Clean 6x 6x 6x

DB Military Standing 8x 8x 8x

Superset

a. Plate Raise 8x 8x 8x

b. Dips 10x 10x 10x

c. Barbell/DB Curls 10x 10x 10x

Superset


a. Knees to Bows 10x 10x 10x

b. Wood Chops 5x 5x 5x

Week 6

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps




Hang Cleans (Light) 8x 8x 6x 6x



Sit Up Circuit 1x 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x


Press (Floor or Band) 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x

Explosive Press Circuit 1x 1x

Superset






Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Box Jumps

Regular 4x 4x 4x 4x

ESS Jumps 4x 4x 4x 4x


Back Squat 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x


Superset





Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x


Power Clean 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x


Superset


b. Dips 12x 12x 12x


Superset



Week 7

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps







Sit Up Circuit 1x 1x 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x



Press (Floor or Band) 5x 5x 3x 3x 3x

Explosive Press Circuit 1x 1x 1x

Superset






Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Box Jumps


ESS Jumps 4x 4x 2x 2x 2x



Superset





Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x




Superset


b. Dips 10x Failure x Failure x


Superset




Week 8

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps

Bodyweight 3x 3x 3x 2x 2x

Weighted 2x 2x 2x 1x 1x





Sit Up Circuit 1x 1x 1x 1x

Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x


Press (Floor or Band) 6x 4x 2x 2x 1x 1x

Explosive Press Circuit 1x 1x 1x

Superset






Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Box Jumps

Regular 4x 2x 2x 2x 1x 1x

ESS Jumps 4x 2x 2x 2x 1x 1x

Squat Jumps 2x 2x 2x 2x

Back Squat 6x 4x 2x 2x 2x 2x

Superset






Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x




Superset


b. Dips Failure x Failure x Failure x


Superset



Peak Phase



Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps


Knee Jump + Box 3x 3x 3x 3x

Hang Snatch (Light) 3x 3x 3x

Power Clean 8x 8x 8x 8x


Clean Pull 6x 6x 6x


Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x 1x


Flat Bench 8x 8x 8x 8x


Curl to Press 8x 8x 8x

Superset

a. Lay Back Chin Ups 8x 8x 8x

b. Bucket Dumps 8x 8x 8x

c. Palms In Incline 8x 8x 8x

Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Hurdle Jumps (4 hurdles)

Forward 2x 2x 2x 2x

Lateral 2x 2x 2x 2x

Power Snatch 6x 6x 6x

Hang Clean (Light) 4x 4x 4x 4x

Split Jerk 5x 5x 3x 3x


Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x


Back Squat 8x 8x 8x 8x

Squat Jump 3x 3x 3x

Superset

a. Bulgarian Squats 8x 8x 8x

b. Body Drops 8x 8x 8x

c. Hip Thrusts 4x 4x 4x

Weighted Hyperxplosions 10x 10x 10x

Week 10

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps


Knee Jump + Box 3x 3x 2x 2x





Clean Pull 6x 6x 6x


Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x 1x


Flat Bench 5x 5x 5x 5x 5x


Superset




Thursday

Dynamic Warmup

Hurdle Jumps(4 hurdles)

Forward 3x 3x 3x 3x

Lateral 3x 3x 3x 3x





Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x



Squat Jump 3x 3x 3x

Superset






Week 11

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps


Knee Jump + Box 3x 3x 2x 2x 2x




Clean Pull 4x 4x 4x


Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x 1x


Flat Bench 5x 5x 3x 3x 3x


Superset




Thursday

Dynamic Warmup


Forward 2x 2x 2x 2x 2x

Lateral 2x 2x 2x 2x 2x





Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x


Ladder Circuit 1x



Squat Jump 3x 3x 3x

Superset





Week 12

Monday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Knee Jumps


Knee Jump + Box 2x 2x 1x 1x 1x


Power Clean 6x 4x 2x 2x 1x 1x


Clean Pull 4x 4x 4x


Tuesday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Dot Drill 1x 1x 1x


Flat Bench 6x 4x 2x 2x 1x 1x


Superset




Thursday

Dynamic Warmup 1x



Forward 2x 2x 1x 1x 1x

Lateral 2x 2x 1x 1x 1x

Power Snatch 6x 4x 2x 2x 1x 1x




Friday

Dynamic Warmup 1x

Ladder Circuit 1x


Back Squat 6x 4x 2x 2x 1x 1x

Squat Jump 3x 3x 3x

Superset



