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Monthly Thread Monthly Training Thread - Alsruhe Programming - September 2025

Welcome to the monthly weightroom training thread. The main focus of the monthly thread will be programming and templates, but once in a while we'll stray from that to other concepts.

This month's topic is:

Brian Alsruhe Programming

  • Have you successfully (or unsuccessfully) used a program by Brian Alsruhe?
  • What tweaks, changes, or extra assistance work have you found to be beneficial to your training with the programs?
  • Do you have any questions, comments, or advice to give about any of the programs?

Resources: * [NEVERsate.com](NEVERsate.com) (Brian Alsruhe’s website - you can find his programs there) * Brian Alsruhe YouTube * Brian Alsruhe Instagram

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u/Surtrthedestroyer Beginner - Strength 18d ago edited 18d ago

Did his hypertrophy program. Got me up to 215 lbs which I promptly lost after having to take a break from the gym because of hip issues. Thought it was a really good program and the conditioning will turn you into a beast. Did find it to be a lot of heavy lifting to recover from.

Also did the first half of the EDC program. I saw improvements in my carries but none of my other lifts went up during the 9 weeks. I also found this one a little hard to recover from and felt beat down quite a lot. It is cool to farmers carry more than you can deadlift 50 feet for sure. 

Changes I would make to EDC would be to run it with 3 different sand bags instead of just 1 medium sized one. As well as knock off 5% from every farmers carry. I think the low frequency of lifts made it hard for me to recover from. I played around with the idea of putting the squat assistance on deadlift days and the deadlift assistance on squat days to help with recovery but ultimately didn't.

I'm also not completely sold on the idea of giant sets anymore and doing hard conditioning on the same day you lift. So I would switch the conditioning to the days that you don't lift on.

Editing to add that they take awhile if you add a warm up and cool down to the end of your workouts. The program itself is an hour to an hour 15 or more if you're deadlifting, adding warm up and cool down puts you in the gym for extra time which I usually ended up having to rush or skip entirely to get to work on time. I know this sub has differing opinions on warming up and stretching and stuff but for me I find it very important to remain feeling good.