30/05/2025
David’s strength training in the Novice program is designed to improve and build the structural elements of your body – your muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The repetition range and tempo of the strength training exercises is very important here more so than the actual weight lifted, of course David wants you to lift a weight that feels heavy and challenges you, but more focus is on the tempo and maintaining perfect form throughout the motion, so you may have to reduce the weight to get the prescribed number of perfect reps in.
The goal is to get you started safely and without pain with real exercises that get you stronger, fitter and enjoying your workouts.
You will be performing full body resistance workouts two times a week using the six pillars of the squat, hinge, single leg, press, pull and core exercises to ensure that you are training all the movement patterns, so you develop equally in all areas needed for general strength while maximizing your athleticism.
There are no body building workout splits of chest day or leg day in this program as this causes too much fatigue and excessive soreness.
Tri-sets are used in his Novice program to maximise time, meaning there are three exercises that you will perform back-to-back with little or no rest.
There are 3 different tri-sets in each workout day.
Reps, sets, and intensity are structured to focus on connective tissue strength and neural adaptations.
Two different resistance workouts are conducted each week focusing on the six pillars of strength training: squat, hinge, single leg, press, pull, and core.
Sessions are structured to minimise fatigue and hypertrophy.
Exercises remain the same throughout the phases to achieve basic competence and build confidence, but volume, intensity and methods change to ensure progress.
Veiw an example 👇
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1POJS75ne93sQ7KvRdyaYKzAPK2Te4Llq/view?usp=drivesdk