Reviews
Intermediate Bodybuilding Program (by Eric Helms)
I really wanted to love this program. The first two days of program were amazing. But the last three days were way too easy. Only 4 exercises on pull and push. No bicep exercise for pull day. Maybe for a beginner this would be a good program but someone trying to push at the intermediate or advanced level, just not enough volume.
I like this program! Monday and Tuesday are super long days compared to the rest of the week but it’s fine as long as you allocate enough time to it. I am a woman in a calorie deficit so I don’t ever expect crazy strength gains but this program does ensure that I am increasing weight each week and I feel like I am getting slowly but surely stronger. The exercises themselves are great. Tried and true stuff, the big 3 compounds, and nothing goofy lol. Can recommend
Nice workout program
It's flexible and not proscriptive. The progression rules are intuitive. I train around bouldering as my main hobby so I have to juggle the days to manage overtraining so this program being built around upper/lower/push/pull splits really helps.
Good program
Good overall mix of strength and hypertrophy. Eric does a good job incorporating some of the bigger movements like squat and deadlift. I’m more of a powerlifter, so while this still gave me some of what I wanted, I think it could be slightly tweaked to be even more effective.
Good base program, progressions are easy to follow personally only modified exercises to add more external stability but I assume my results would have been relatively similar just using the program as written.
I like this one, it’s been ok. I think i got more gains from the Greg Knockles Beginner Powerlifter than this one.
Solid base. Switched out afew exercises but only for personal reasons.
Great program. It worked better than I expected.