Layne Norton PHAT

Griffin220x

Anybody been doing this, I just finished my first week today and was wondering if anybody had any success or tips?

jasonpclement

Nope, all thought i basically just believe anything that dude says because he seems to know his stuff. I bet your pretty sore after that initial week?

Griffin220x

Surprisingly no, I'm not that sore. Actually the month before I kind of already prepared myself through tons of high volume work that paid off (which I was sore that entire month lol). The only things that's new to me are the power lifts with low rep work.

FrnkLft

I've been doing this routine for about two months now. Are you still using it, and how are you coming along?

zipnguyen

Anybody been doing this, I just finished my first week today and was wondering if anybody had any success or tips?

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I was coached by Layne and did PHAT exclusively for ~3 yrs and recently moved on to DUP and Dr. Mike Zourdos is/has customized the program for me.

DavPul

*searches preceding for impressions of program and/or tips*

zipnguyen

*searches preceding for impressions of program and/or tips*

PHAT is a combo of power and hypertrophy. Most bb'ers perform exercises that are biased to hypertrophy so they have that bber look. But if you don't focus on getting stronger you limit your hypertrophic gains. So PHAT tries to get you stronger on your heavy/power oriented days so you can get eventually stronger so your hypertrophy days are laden with more weight as your progressing on your strength/power days......symbiotic.

zipnguyen

DUP attempts something similar where you perform a limited number of exercises but each day is a different focus so if you lift based on power, you can perform the same lift if based on strength the same week and during the same week you can focus on the same lift but on hypertrophy. Volume of the same lift say a squat is maximized but since you're performing different rep schemes during the week it doesn't tax you as much...

...LOL @ doesn't tax you as much :laugh: