Lazy Guy Programming

I'm probably the laziest mother fucker on the planet when it comes to programming. I use some common sense when I plug in assistance work, but I also REALLY try to minimize plate loading and moving around in the gym when I write my programming. I'm more of a camper guy...I like to unpack my shit, plant my ass in one place and go to work.

Just a leftover photo of Elisabeth Shue that never made it from my CPU to a previous post. My gift to you...lord have mercy....

I was at Pizza Hut yesterday pounding my post workout meal, and thinking about my session and thought...Damn...I didn't leave the rack for an hour and a half and still probably made 10X the progress of everyone else in the gym. To the untrained eye, I just mindlessly squatted for an hour or so. But in reality, I did my work sets and 2 assistance movements: I worked up to a heavy double (maximal strength work...check!), did 4X3 pause squats (addressed my weak spot out of the hole with some dynamic type work...check!), and did 5x10 burn outs at 50% (hypertrophy work to increase my strength ceiling and some extra grove work...check!).

Now I'm 30 minutes out of the gym and everything's pretty fried: quads, hams, glutes, abs, lower back, upper back, and erectors. I'm ravenously hungry and systemically trashed...so what the fuck else do I need to do? I didn't dick about moving all around the gym and I didn't have to load any plates after my top double, because after that I just stripped weight. Now that's what I call training economy.

I do the same crap every session whenever possible. Deadlift day for example; pull, stiff legs, and shrugs. It amounts to the same thing: I do my heavy pulling from the floor, strip it down for stiff legs, then use about the same weight for high rep shrugs. I hit the main movement, hit the assistance I think drives my deadlift, and never leave the platform. Now that's lazy man thinking right there!

FYI: here's my current schedule:

Day 1: Squats, pause squats, high rep squats
Day 2: Chins, abs (at home)
Day 3: Deads, SLD, shrugs
Day 4: Bench, press, row

That small home session floats with the bench session depending on my schedule and when I'm in town. I'm not even close to dead set on a schedule. I hit it when I can, but it usually works out to be every other day or so, and I try to squeeze in lighter daily conditioning. Conditioning everyday? Yeah...why not, a few sets of burpees or skips aren't going to infringing on recovery. Just gotta be smart and go easy.

"Go get big, strong and lazy"