Titan I Template

The Titan Template is designed for individuals who meet the following criteria:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Individuals who have access to a CrossFit gym or the majority of the equipment 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Scheduling

This is a 10-week strength and conditioning program that includes 5 workouts per week:

3 strength-focused workouts with 2-3 exercises programmed followed by either a short metabolic conditioning WOD or interval conditioning piece.

•  1 longer metabolic conditioning WOD per week
• 1 longer monostructural conditioning (e.g. row, run, bike) piece per week. The workout days aren’t set in stone, but we recommend the following training week:

1. Monday – Day 1 lifting and MetCon
2. Tuesday – Off
3. Wednesday- Day 2 lifting and interval conditioning
4. Thursday – Monostructural conditioning
5. Friday – Day 3 lifting and MetCon
6. Saturday- Longer MetCon
7. Sunday – Off

It is 100% okay to mix and match elements of the training week to fit your schedule, however we recommend keeping the putting the lifting days non-consecutively (e.g. M/W/F or T/R/Sat) when possible.

Exercise Selection

Equipment-wise, we recommend that folks have a pair of Olympic lifting shoes, cross-training sneakers, and a lifting belt. Straps, wraps, etc. can be used as needed per the lifter’s discretion, but they aren’t explicitly needed.

With respect to strength training, The Titan Template 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.

What’s Next?

After the Titan Template you can pick a number of different paths. One option is to run it again if you saw good progress the first time. Alternatively, you could move to one of our other templates if you’ve identified a particular interest like powerlifting, Olympic Weightlifting, or similar. Finally, you could return to the programming you were previously doing to put all of your new skills to work!

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