The Titan Series is designed for Trainees who want to incorporate CrossFit-style workouts and training elements in their programming.
Titan I gets you started on a solid foundation and Titan II has additional training volume and resources dedicated to further developing the more experienced lifter.
Who’s it For?
These programs are designed for individuals who meet the following criteria:
- Have some previous experience (>3 months) training with barbells. If you’re new to training that’s great! We recommend our Beginner Template for those who have not been training with barbells consistently. Don’t worry, this template will still be available for you when you’re ready.
- Trainees who want to incorporate CrossFit-style workouts and training elements in their programming. The Titan Template includes elements of Olympic lifting, strength training, gymnastics, conditioning, and calisthenics and if that’s not your speed, that’s okay! In that case, we’d recommend either our Endurance or General Strength and Conditioning templates if you want a significant conditioning component to your training. If you’re looking for something more purely strength or hypertrophy based, we have other offerings for these applications as well.
- Trainees who are currently doing CrossFit at their gym who want intelligently- programmed strength training. It is 100% okay if you want to do our strength workouts and then do the workout of the day (WOD) with your friends in a class setting.
- Individuals who are not competitive CrossFit athletes. Simply put, the programming needs of a high-level CrossFit athlete are not compatible for most folks. Rather, this template is designed for trainees who want to get stronger, increase their capacity, and improve their skills in a systematic way- even if they’re not going to the Games.
Exercise Selection
- Titan I features a 10-week strength and conditioning program that includes 5 workouts per week and Titan II also has a 10-week program that is designed for 4-6 days of activity per week.
With respect to strength training, Titan programs the variants of the clean, snatch, squat, deadlift, press, and bench press in order to improve the lifter’s proficiency in these elements through repeated exposure and progressive overload without specializing.
Similarly, we’ve programmed the MetCons and conditioning in a way that develops capacity in a wide variety of time domains (e.g. short, medium, and long efforts) and modalities (e.g. monostructural and mixed-modal workouts).
Finally, we’ve also programmed specific skill work to improve performance on things like double-unders, toes-to-bar, strict gymnastics, etc.
Equipment Needs
The Titan series is best when you have access to a CrossFit gym or the majority of the equipment that is typically found in a CrossFit gym. Ideally, you’ll have access to things like barbells, steel plates, bumper plates, boxes, kettlebells and/or dumbbells, pull-up bars, airdynes, rowers, etc.
Not all of this equipment if strictly necessary, but without the majority of this stuff it will be very difficult to perform the prescribed exercises and workouts.
Product Support
- Customers receive lifetime access to support for this program via our web Forum or through E-mail
- No refunds are available for downloadable products at this time
- Program file downloads are only available via purchases made on the Barbell Medicine website. File downloads are not provided for purchases made within the Barbell Medicine App.