Latest / Wits & Weights | Strength & Fat Loss Over 40 / Brand New 6-Week FAT LOSS Workout Program (Introducing CHISEL)
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- 0:00Philip Pape: I decided to drop a quick bonus episode today because I just finished building something I'm really excited about and I wanted to tell you about it before the workshop next Tuesday.
- 0:09Philip Pape: We have a workshop called Get Lean in 45 Days.
- 0:13Philip Pape: And to go along with that, I decided to create a workout program called Chisel.
- 0:17Philip Pape: It's a four-day upper-lower training template.
- 0:20Philip Pape: And I call it a template because it's flexible, it's very flexible, and that's why it's great for fat loss.
- 0:26Philip Pape: And that's not the only reason.
- 0:27Philip Pape: I'm going to go into some of the details here.
- 0:29Philip Pape: But when you're in a calorie deficit, oftentimes people try to radically change how they train.
- 0:34Philip Pape: For most people, I say, hey, if how your training works out of fat loss, it's probably going to mostly work during fat loss, with some exceptions.
- 0:41Philip Pape: Your body is looking to lose some of that muscle you have if you're not training properly, if you're not progressively overloading.
- 0:48Philip Pape: But you also don't have as much resources or energy coming in.
- 0:52Philip Pape: So you're like, well, what gives?
- 0:53Philip Pape: How do I do that if I feel like I'm losing strength?
- 0:56Philip Pape: And so you're losing weight, but then you may come out the other side not having kept all the muscle you intended to.
- 1:04Philip Pape: Most people, again, either keep training the same way they have before, even if it wasn't effective, or they don't account for the reduced recovery, or on the other extreme, they back off so much, and then they end up losing muscle, you know, doing more cardio and things like that.
- 1:17Philip Pape: So I think chisel is like the optimal middle ground from the years of my own experience for myself and coaching clients and working with people coaching me.
- 1:26Philip Pape: And it's built around preserving your strength, not progressing as in creating new PRs per se while you're in a deficit.
- 1:35Philip Pape: But the goal is to keep as much muscle and strength.
- 1:37Philip Pape: So when you come out the other side, you actually, you know, you look better.
- 1:40Philip Pape: You do what you want to do, you hold on to that muscle, but you also don't make an excuse that, oh, I can't get stronger at all during fat loss, so I'm not even gonna try.
- 1:48Philip Pape: It kind of knocks all those balls or, you know, the plays the game of whack-a-mole quite well.
- 1:53Philip Pape: So here's how it works: it's a four-day upper lower split.
- 1:57Philip Pape: Two days focused on strength with heavier loads in the four to six rep range, two days focused on volume with moderate loads in the eight to twelve range.
- 2:06Philip Pape: Day one is upper body strength, things like bench, rows, shoulder press, lap pull downs, some optional arm work.
- 2:12Philip Pape: And when I say optional, by the way, I have three different tiers of how flexible it is.
- 2:17Philip Pape: So you can cut stuff out, both sets and exercises, and you have specific instructions on how to do that in case it's too much, or you need to sleep more, or you just don't need that much volume.
- 2:27Philip Pape: So that's day one, upper body.
- 2:28Philip Pape: Day two is lower body strength, things like squats, RDLs, leg press, leg curls, calves, you know, core work if you need it.
- 2:35Philip Pape: Day three is upper body volume.
- 2:37Philip Pape: So here's a little more on the hypertrophy side where we have variations of the lifts like the incline press, um, some lighter shoulder work, maybe face pulls, lat raises, the things that I really love that I find effective for most people, tricep extensions, for example.
- 2:49Philip Pape: And then day four is lower body volume, deadlifts, split squats.
- 2:53Philip Pape: I know we love them.
- 2:54Philip Pape: I know we, I know we all love them.
- 2:55Philip Pape: There are alternatives, don't worry.
- 2:57Philip Pape: Leg curls, leg extensions, some calf, some ab work, right?
- 3:00Philip Pape: And so it's quite flexible.
- 3:02Philip Pape: You run the template for six weeks straight that align with our six-week mini cut.
- 3:07Philip Pape: Obviously, you can do this indefinitely if you want.
- 3:10Philip Pape: You can rotate it, rotate out exercises to do another six-week block.
- 3:14Philip Pape: But during the six weeks, you're being very consistent, you're not hopping around, and you are just progressing on those lifts.
- 3:20Philip Pape: And each exercise has flexibility built in, where not only can you swap movements and cut things out based on your recovery, it describes a certain way to use the rep ranges and progress them.
- 3:32Philip Pape: So from week one, you pick the right load so you don't feel like you're falling out of the rep range as soon as week two or three.
- 3:39Philip Pape: And of course, you're still aiming to increase the load within the rep range across the six weeks.
- 3:45Philip Pape: It's a pretty simple concept, but a lot of people get this wrong.
- 3:48Philip Pape: So we make sure to explain it for you.
- 3:49Philip Pape: And then rest periods are sticking to what I like, which is a little bit higher for compound lifts, like three to five minutes, and down at the say 90 second to three minutes for isolation work.
- 4:00Philip Pape: And then based on your biofeedback, or if you start, you know, not feeling as strong, we give you some notes to check on biofeedback like sleep and carbs around your training, stress, things like that.
- 4:12Philip Pape: So it's not just the training piece, it's also a little bit of how does this align with your nutrition and recovery capacity.
- 4:19Philip Pape: We can't override a lot of bad sleep, a lot of poor sleep or underfueling your workouts, but some of that is par for the course when it comes to fat loss.
- 4:26Philip Pape: So I built Chisel specifically to go along with the 45-day protocol I'm teaching in the get lean and 45 days workshop.
- 4:34Philip Pape: So if you're looking to get ahead of the big rush toward that summer body that you're looking for, which many of us we wait too long and they're like, uh-oh, summer's technically like just a month or two away.
- 4:44Philip Pape: I'm doing a workshop this Tuesday, January 20 at Noon Eastern.
- 4:47Philip Pape: The replay is included as they always are for my workshops.
- 4:51Philip Pape: You get the downloadable guide, you get the access to the template, and here's a surprise bonus we just created this week.
- 4:59Philip Pape: I finished recording it, an eight-week guided course that's that holds your hand through the whole protocol as you go to help you actually customize it with your numbers as you get support along the way.
- 5:10Philip Pape: So here's the thing you don't have to wait until the workshop to get Chisel.
- 5:14Philip Pape: If you sign up right now, when you hear this episode, you will get instant access to the Chisel template.
- 5:19Philip Pape: I've already released it.
- 5:20Philip Pape: And then you can start looking at it, planning your lifts, getting familiar with the structure, asking questions before we even go live for the workshop next week.
- 5:28Philip Pape: So go to live.wits and weights.com to register and get instant access to that as well as the workshop.
- 5:33Philip Pape: You'll get Chisel instantly, and then you'll get all that other stuff.
- 5:37Philip Pape: Go to live.wits and weights.com.