The Spartan Workout

ATTENTION: IF YOU WANT MORE THAN JUST A GREAT PHYSIQUE, BUT POWER, ENDURANCE, AND TOUGHNESS, PLEASE READ...

AT THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN, OUT OF BREATH, MY MUSCLES BURNING, I REALIZED THAT MY WORKOUTS WERE MAKING ME SOFT. I NEEDED MORE...

A FEW MONTHS LATER I'D CREATED AND TESTED THE EPT METHOD, AND I'VE NEVER BEEN IN BETTER SHAPE - PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY.

Hey it's Chad, I've been making workouts that help guys gain muscle, burn fat, and grow stronger for over a decade...

I've helped over 10,000 guys reach their physical goals, and that's awesome, but men train for reasons beyond looking better. To be honest, having the sole pursuit of a 'better looking body' is pretty effeminate.

Training in and of itself was started to prepare men for war... To get men stronger, faster, tougher...

To help men gain endurance to be able to go farther than their enemy could.

I'll keep this quick, because it doesn't need to be long, but this past year I went out hunting in the Rocky Mountains.

On my back was a 30-40 pound bag with gear, guns, and a shitload of water.

We hiked 12km's through the Rockies with packs on our backs, slowly, keeping our eyes open for potential prey. By the end of the hike I was exhausted.

We didn't get an animal that day, and man, even though I'd been lifting weights, following a great strength routine, that mountain put me in my place, it would have been hell carrying a deer out of those hills...

The reality is that over the past couple of years, my workouts have helped me get bigger and stronger, but they haven't tested me like I want them to, even need them to.

That hunt showed me that I needed to change things up... and I knew exactly where to look for inspiration.

Men train for more than just strength, size, and looks, we need skills that can take us into battle, into the mountains, and help us thrive in every situation...

ARE YOUR WORKOUTS MAKING YOU TOUGHER?

ARE THEY GIVING YOU THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO DOMINATE, TO WIN, TO ENDURE?

"A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out." ~ TR

...It wasn’t a book about Sparta, but a book about a culture who took a lot from Sparta, and one of their heroes, Cato.

In the book about the great Roman politician and philosopher, the author talks about how Romans raised their sons.

No matter how wealthy, the boys wore rags and ran the streets learning the skills of survival, learning to be tough, training to do without the wealth their fathers may have earned but they hadn’t.

The Romans taught their sons to be brutal, tough, and strong by putting them through struggles and pain so that one day when they faced the horrors of war, they wouldn’t crumble.

They were trained to be physically and mentally tough, for toughness would ensure personal and national victory.

A couple thousand years later, Theodore Roosevelt Senior had the same idea for his son who was afflicted with asthma at a young age, and bed-ridden as a result.

He didn’t want a soft son. He saw no value in being weak and soft and so he challenged his son to build his body through training and action rather than submitting to his affliction - which was then deadly.

The result: a man of unparalleled action.

As I look at our daily lives, it’s pretty apparent that we’re not training to be tough, but training our sons and ourselves to be soft. And nothing good can come from a man who is soft. He will wilt in times of struggle, crumble in times of danger.

He cannot be depended on.

And so, a simple question that we all must answer and answer truthfully because one answer requires little from us, while the other demands a whole lot:

WHAT KIND OF MAN DO YOU WANT TO BE?

DO YOU WANT ADVENTURE OR COMFORT?

DO YOU WANT GREATNESS OR MEDIOCRITY?

WHO YOU WANT TO BE SHOULD DETERMINE HOW YOU TRAIN...

Your mind is trained in the gym when you workout. You’re not just training to become stronger, but tougher.

But are you actually becoming tougher when you train?
Are you getting faster while also building endurance?
Are you getting leaner while also getting stronger?
Are you becoming more explosive and powerful?
In your workouts is there a point where you want to quit because it’s too tough?

YOUR WORKOUT SHOULD MAKE YOU WANT TO QUIT, IT SHOULD BUILD ENDURANCE AND SPEED AND CULTIVATE DISCIPLINE…
… IF, OF COURSE, YOU WANT TO BE READY FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.

Vain guys, soft guys - they’re the same thing - they can train just for looks. You need both to build an awesome physique but also have the endurance, strength, and power that is of actual use in real life.

They don’t need to be tougher or to improve endurance. They don’t need it because they’re not going to put themselves in the situations that will test them.

They’re not after adventure or greatness.

They’re not daring greatly or having their reach exceed their grasp.

THEY WON’T EVER HAVE SCARS THAT TELL THE STORIES OF THEIR TRIUMPHS, BUT YOU WILL.

If you have ambition and daring, then your training must reflect this. I realized this at the top of that mountain. Training isn't just about being healthy, it's about being UNBREAKABLE!

While, yes, you need to be stronger, you also need to train for endurance.

When was the last time you trained for endurance?!

While you need endurance, you also need speed.

While you need strength, you also need to be explosive.

A WORKOUT SHOULD READY YOU FOR WAR. IT SHOULD MAKE YOU UNBREAKABLE, UNSHAKEABLE, AND INDESTRUCTIBLE...

It’s better to be tough than it is to be soft.

LESSONS FROM THE SPARTANS

You cannot talk about training toughness, training discipline, training strength, endurance, and power, without talking about the Spartans.

The Spartans, the great warrior culture of Ancient Greece, whom the Romans modelled some of their education - or at least training of their boys - after, prided themselves on living a ‘Spartan Lifestyle’, one that almost opposed the artistic and increasingly soft cultures of the rest of Greece.

They were warriors. Every one of them were warriors, and as such they lived their lives devoid of the comforts they thought made men weak.

They brought on pain. They constantly trained in the ways of war. They were, as such, one of the great warrior cultures that history ever produced.

And in aiming to become tougher, stronger, to improve endurance and acquire grit, there’s no better culture to model your training after.

IF YOU WANT TO BE UNBREAKABLE, TRAIN AS A SPARTAN WOULD...

THE 5 FACTORS OF A SPARTAN WORKOUT:

STRENGTH

It's better to be strong than it is to be weak. Strength is capacity, it's ability, it guarantees muscle gains, aids in fat loss, and helps give you the ability to care for your family, your friends, and to conquer whatever adventures you may want to conquer. Men need strength, to lack it is to move closer to the feminine. How you train strength, however, is important. IT MUST MAKE YOU MORE ATHLETIC, NOT LESS MOBILE!

ENDURANCE

What's almost completely forgotten in modern training is endurance. Men, we NEED ENDURANCE! Have you ever hunted? You'll know how important endurance is. Have you ever hiked? Explored? Hell, have you ever explored a new country on horseback? Endurance is a MUST for any training program that aims to improve the totality of the man and not just the aesthetic.

SPEED

If you live an adventurous, daring life, one with danger and excitement, you need to be faster and more explosive. This is athleticism. What's the use of a slow man? Think you're going to catch the bad guy? Think you're going to get away from the animal? I haven't trained speed in years, but I know I need to...

POWER

Power is found in a punch that KO's the prick who needs to be KO's. Power is useful in those situations where you need it, where your back is against the wall and you need to be explosive. It's lifting the object off your lady when she's trapped. Men need power, but we don't train for it nearly enough. We're either after strength, muscle, or fat loss, but rarely do our modern programs make us more powerful.

TOUGHNESS

Finally, a program is essentially useless if it does not make you tougher. When was the last time a workout made you quit? When was the last time your training was so tough that you woke up brutally sore in the morning? A workout should, heck, it MUST make you a better, tougher man, and these modern, soft workouts just don't do that.

FINALLY, I HAD TO ADMIT IT, MY WORKOUTS WERE NOT GIVING ME EVERYTHING ABOVE...

Finally, a program is essentially useless if it does not make you tougher. When was the last time a workout made you quit?

When was the last time your training was so tough that you woke up brutally sore in the morning?

A workout should, heck, it MUST make you a better, tougher man, and these modern, soft workouts just don't do that.

I needed toughness, but also ability. I want a great physique, sure, but the power, strength, and endurance that makes it actually useful, so I sat down a few months ago and started working...

PROBLEM: SIMPLE HARD WORK AND 'DOING EVERYTHING' IN THE GYM, DOESN'T WORK!

You CAN'T just go into the gym and 'do whatever', work hard, do a bunch of circuits that may seem to make sense, but are more random than anything, and expect to improve physically...

The goal has to be to improve physically, to get more powerful while also getting stronger, while also building endurance and speed.

Or what's the point?

WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING TOUGH IF YOU'RE NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH OR STRONG ENOUGH TO BE EFFECTIVE?

And while crossfit type workouts can be great, the guys who dominate at them spend hours upon hours in the gym everyday...

I'd rather have shorter, more intense, and more effective workouts with less equipment.

So I looked to the Spartans for inspiration...

INSTEAD OF TRAINING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE,

TRAIN TO BE BIGGER, STRONGER, AND LEANER, BUT ALSO TOUGHER, FASTER, MORE POWERFUL, AND WITH THE ENDURANCE THAT WILL CARRY YOU THROUGH LIFE, TO THE MAN YOU MUST BECOME...

THE EPT METHOD: ENDURANCE, POWER, TOUGHNESS.

There's a MASSIVE myth that you can't train for power and endurance at the same time... Because too many people try to train for them on the SAME DAY. That doesn't work best.

You can, however, gain endurance and power and build your ideal body, using the EPT Method that I used in the SPARTAN Program...

The SPARTAN Manual is all about the mental. Spartans were TOUGH mentally. They sought out pain. They brought more struggle into their lives so that when the day came, they didn't fold.

There's a myth that you will RISE TO THE OCCASION. YOU WON'T! YOU WILL FALL BACK ON YOUR TRAINING. Are you training your mind to be able to withstand what life thrusts into your lap? Are you able to withstand and endure and THRIVE in the worst circumstances? Step 1: BUILD AN IRON MIND. ($19 Value)

SPARTAN WEIGHT TRAINING (POWER PHASE)

To build power that lasts you need weights. Plyometrics are great, but weight training, using effective progressions to increase your power every week while improving your X Shaped Physique with Oly Lifts, compound lifts, and explosive movement in Spartan Circuit Training Workouts will leave you with a better-looking, more powerful body in weeks.

This entire phase is dedicated to building power and strength that's there in the 12th round just it was in the first.

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SPARTAN ENDURANCE TRAINING (addition)

Add endurance training to your power training... Don't alternate phases, instead, alternate days.

Spend a day doing your power training, and then another doing your endurance training. You're going to build muscle, but also cut a ton of fat.

The Endurance Training will push you to quit, it will strengthen your mind and make sure you can withstand anything!

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SPARTAN DIET

More than just a workout, but a way of eating. It's a truly SPARTAN DIET. No frills, no nonsense.

It's simple, easy to follow, and filled with whole, natural foods and animals. No processed nonsense. No 'cheating'. No weakness.

Just a diet that will help you Eat Like a Man, and Live Like a Spartan. It's a diet specifically designed to help you recover from the brutal workouts you're going to be doing while boosting T and lowering cortisol.

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SPARTAN HYBRID TRAINING

Using bodyweight training, weight training, endurance training, explosive training, you're going to build both power and endurance.

You're going to train in ways that you've never trained before to get results that you've never gotten yet...

It will not be easy, but the light at the end of the tunnel is a LEANER, MORE ATHLETIC, MORE POWERFUL BODY THAT WILL CARRY YOU TO YOUR GOALS IN LIFE!

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