Power Block Training

Thanks for having me out in your sweet garage gym! Haven’t gotten to squat or barbell shoulder press this year! Was nice to get back to it, working on my asymmetries, bit by bit, not the heaviest work but not horrible for 5 sets of high reps and a guy rehabbing multiple injuries.
Also warms my heart to see still keeping up with the PBT program and more jacked than ever, beastly work for his first time doing BSS’s and don’t believe him, you can still do pull-ups. Also shout out for all your motor vehicle legal needs and more.

So I showed evidence of ‘s strength improvements in my last post, well the beautiful thing about weightlifting is, as long as you’re not eating a compensatory amount of junk/excess calories, those strength increases can really translate to visual aesthetic improvements too! Matthew and I worked on his diet daily for the first month and he’s been pretty dialed in ever since!
As your strength and endurance improve simultaneously on the PBT program, you gradually burn more and more calories in each workout, while they don’t take you anymore time to complete due to the fact that the increase in expenditure is mediated by load increases, not duration or other variables. This CANNOT be replicated in any other form of unresisted exercise, as you train you become more efficient at that motor pattern, so if you want to burn more calories via cardio like running, you have to keep running further and longer, you can’t hope to continually burn more and more calories in the same amount of time. THIS is the “magic” of weight training.
Matthew was 175 lbs when we started, dropped to 170 within a couple months, and recently gained back to 175 lbs. It is fair to assume he gained at least 5 lbs of muscle, and quite probably more like 10 or more lbs! I claim this as he’s clearly been losing fat this whole time, eating healthy and consistently exercising way more than he used to! I’d wager, he lost around ~10 lbs or more of fat, and gained the same in muscle, in ~18 weeks. Pretty damn good! Keep up the great work brother, this is only the beginning! Much more to come!
We didn’t really get Matthew lifting heavy and pushing super hard in the workouts until much later into our PBT as he had to learn the form to everything first and adapt to the program!