17 reviews for Basement Bodybuilding: Home Gym Upper Lower

3 weeks complete

8 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

More than expected muscle gains

Less volume means crank the intensity of each set and you’ll see gains

7 weeks complete

5 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

Solid program for a gym with little workout equipment. I had taken a break from the gym, and this program gave me enough to grow my strength and endurance back up while still seeing results.

3 weeks complete

3 years of prior experience

More than expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

The simplicity in progression has been what I've needed as an intermediate lifter. Other programs have progression systems that can make me overthink it, or involve RPE systems that leave me wondering if I'm actually working hard enough to stimulate muscle growth. As a natural, nearly 40 years old, I can say with confidence that this has been the best program I've tried on this app so far. The all-out sets are tempered with dialing back volume, where other programs that call for regularly hitting RPE 10 have too much volume/frequency for me to recover from, this one seems to hit the sweet spot for me, keeping it fun and engaging with the hard effort sets. I also enjoy the extra back work on leg days.

7 weeks complete

6 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

Less than expected muscle gains

Easy to follow. I just wish there was more variety instead of the same 4 workouts for 9 weeks.

3 weeks complete

2 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

More than expected muscle gains

Been a great guide to follow! Just a couple of things iv had to change because of not having the equipment but it’s been perfect for my little home gym! First time using this app and it’s handy!

3 weeks complete

1 year of prior experience

Less than expected strength gains

Less than expected muscle gains

It's only been 4 weeks, still time to see the results i expected

5 weeks complete

5 years of prior experience

As expected strength gains

As expected muscle gains

This is a really solid program. I recommend it.

7 weeks complete

1 year of prior experience

More than expected strength gains

More than expected muscle gains

I’ll echo an earlier comment saying this is the best at home hypertrophy program on this app. Period. The exercise selection is great, and the cues help tremendously. Coming from a background of doing the cycle of SBD for 3-6 months and then stopping for a year, I’ve had way more gains with this program than ever. The alternative exercises are great. Only modifications I have made were subbing out T bar rows for cable column rows since I have one, and barbell calf raises instead of dumbbell calf raises. All I have is a rack, barbell, plate loaded cable column, EZ bar, and loadable dumbbells. You can easily complete this program with only a barbell, rack, and dumbbells. In 8 weeks, I’ve added 2 inches to my biceps, lost about 2 inches in the waist, and added about 2-3 inches in my chest. My legs have stayed about the same, maybe increasing about an inch in my quads. I thought I would miss doing squats more but I really don’t. I enjoy the rack pulls and RDLs. I do miss having leg press, hack squat, and belt squat. If you have those in your home gym, use those instead of barbell squat. Basement Bodybuilding’s training philosophy has helped me more than anything. The more I learn from his videos, the more confident I feel in my home gym training hard. I have been slowly adding weight to the bar, mainly chasing the stimulus more than the number of plates on the bar. By this time running Starting Strength or similar program, I’d be hurting/aching/tired/injured and I’d be about at the quitting mark. But 8 weeks in I feel great and am looking more muscular. I even plan on sticking with this for longer with slight modifications to exercises (adding in dips on chest day, back extension on back day) TLDR: Just hit start and do the program. Takes about an hour start to finish for me. You’re gonna get swole.

3 weeks complete

1 year of prior experience

As expected strength gains

More than expected muscle gains

I been in the gym for about 2 years and this is probably the best program I’ve done on this app. I’ve been misguided on training for so long I love the 2 sets of 6-8

5 weeks complete

1 year of prior experience

As expected strength gains

More than expected muscle gains

I'd strongly recommend this program to anyone looking to pack on size and strength.