This program is based on the book “Body By Science” from Doug McGuff and John Little. The program is like a mutual fund of exercises, this means basically you need nothing more than these exercises. It is the best starting point and a ideal fundament to stimulate all of the metabolic benefits necessary to optimize human health and fitness. It is very simple and it’s done in less than 13 minutes a week.
You can do the workout with machines or as a free weight option. However given that it is basically a resistance training, which means that the goal of your training is a point where you can no longer produce enough force to lift the resistance, the machine option is the better choice.
The program consists exclusively of compound exercises, that means that they involve rotation around several joint axes and therefore involve also several muscular groups per excercise.
You should move quickly from one exercise to the next. It should be about 30 seconds to a minute. The advantage of moving faster between the exercises is that your needed amount of resistance for the next exercise drops (you had less recovery) and so the relative degree of inroad that you’re achieving as you progress through the workout is increased. But you shouldn’t move so quickly that you feel light-headed or nauseated. As a rule of thumb you shouldn’t feel completely recovered before each exercise as if your’e starting the first set of the workout.
You should keep a record of the date of your workout, the time, the exercises, how much resistance, seat position, the cadence(reps) and the TUL. It’s also a good idea to measure the time from the first exercise until failure on the last exercise in the program. With this data you can also track the total rest time which should not increase massively from workout to workout (Total Time minus Total of all TUL).
You should stay on this program from four to twelve weeks, depending on how you are progressing. Should you notice a slowdown in your progress, then for example you could split the program into two blocks (two Big Three Workouts) with additional isolation movements.