@johnwayne947
Hey Bromley, leaving a little review, just completed my 2nd full run of Bullmastiff as written on the Base Strenght book (36 weeks in total, almost the whole year!). All in kg. My starting 1RM was a bit lower because of lockdowns and I never really followed a program, but the amrap sets quickly added weight to the bar. I've started with a 130 Squat, 80 bench, 160 deadlift and 56 ohp, and finished up the first run with a 190 squat, 114 (x2) bench, 230 deadlift and 76 (x3) ohp. And now in the end of my 2nd run I've got a 210 squat, 120 bench, 250 deadlift and 80 (x2) ohp. Only tweaked some variations of main lifts because of gym restrictions and changed some accessories on the 2nd run. Thanks for the great program, I'll run it again in the future for sure, now I'm gonna do a bodybuilding program and focus on a cut for a few months.
@PearLock
I love that you've carved your niche through more intermediate/advanced training principles. Such a niche demands more long-form content, but you've been consistently uploading 30+ minute videos, which ain't easy. Very grateful for the content Alex, so thank you. Especially when YouTube is inundated with a SHIT-TON of beginner knowledge of "just do your 5's eat for your goals, and you'll see success, hurr durr!" Keep it up, comrade. 😉 Much love.
@aaronprince2770
I finished this program a week ago. This is THE best program for anyone trying to get their numbers up on compound lifts. I’m 19yr old 140lbs bw. Started lifting last June. Before the program my bench was 155lbs, squat 205lbs, deadlift 235lbs, ohp 115lbs. I only took 2 rest days because of my high recovery rate because I’m still new to gym. After the program bench went up to 210lbs, squat 300lbs, deadlift 385lbs, ohp 155. I was in shock when I did my pr’s.
@gabrielmoreno3027
Absolutely love the constant output of videos, all with in depth explanation
@lucasrobison3634
I’d love a complete bullmastiff book. This program has skyrocketed my strength and size over 9 weeks. I’m not even in peak phase and I’m still hitting PRs almost every session (amrap pr). Bench is slower for sure, but now I’ll be tweaking it like you’ve sugggedted!
@JValerianS
Been having great results with Bullmastiff despite cramming the program into a suboptimal period of my life (super busy and stressed with university): I just finished the volume phase, and have now been surpassing main lift set PR:s within workouts that include much greater volume than I've ever done before (doing 6x4 with weights I previously did for 2x3 etc) in everything but the squat, which is slowly coming back from a knee rehab, and even that is progressing really well. I've never been a huge guy or aimed to be one (still doing bouldering etc), but I wanted to allow my body to gain some size for this, and have put on 10 pounds during the first 9 weeks, and don't even feel uncomfortably fluffy, now sitting at 210 pounds or so. Super stoked to see what the peak phase will bring! Thanks for putting this out, Alex - it's been a lot of fun both for me and my training buddy, we've been working through the program side by side and had a blast.
@atomiccheese65
Thanks for this program, been enjoying it a lot for the last few weeks and seeing you release it for free makes me so excited to hear about other people's success with it!
@Donshwuan
28:00 - 28:25. This is why I follow Alex. Because he's honest, (as far as I know). Any other YouTuber would've taken this opportunity to blow their program out of proportion like it's the best thing since sliced bread. Outlier's do not a good program make and it's nice to hear that acknowledged. Definitely want to try this one out.
@lastsonofkrypton3918
My favorite program. It really helped me in my journey so far of S/B/D/P PR's of 200/142.5/235/90 Kg's. Came back to it to for another run starting yesterday, age 51.
@Wo1fLarsen
I still refer to Base Strength quite often. I ran your M/R/S program for 12 weeks. It was great. Made some solid gains and learned a lot. Might get into the BM this fall. 🤘🏼
@TheNerdJD
I definitely have fallen into the "hyper specific" and have focused solely on SBD in singles, doubles, and triples over the past 3 months. Definitely excited to run this program.
@porqpine53
I used Baby Bully to come back from disc surgery and then went all the way thru the regular Bullmastiff base and peak. It was amazing to come back stronger and bigger than ever. I love nothing more than a barn burner final plus set of squats
@evilryutaropro
I read base and peak strength. I think they are the best lifting books I’ve ever seen. Bromley is the GOAT of communicating how to lift to get gains. I’m gonna try to run through all his programs at some point because they all look really well crafted. Thank you so much!!
@hypertrophydisciple
Bullmastiff is a pretty cool program. Always enlightening to see the mindset and philosophy behind programming and the application of it.
@Guitareben
I would pay so much money for a full bullmastiff book. And also a 70’s powerlifter book! In fact, I’d be interested in books focused on all the base strength programs!
@colinquirkDS
Because you asked for feedback, I'll give my thoughts. I got through the first wave in the peak phase, but because of personal circumstances (including an awful cold) I had to take a break from lifting for about a month and it didn't make sense to go back to it as I had lost all my momentum. I was having really awesome success with my squat and deadlift while on a cut, I think I lost around 5 lbs bodyweight while going from 315 on squat to 345+ and 365 on deadlift to 405+. If I had finished out the program, I feel like I could have gotten to a 365lb squat and a 425 lb deadlift. Bench and OHP had gains, but they were fairly limited (possibly due to the lack of frequency/volume, but I'm sure trying to do this on a cut didn't help either). As far as what I liked, volumizing is an awesome form of progression and I'm making it the core of my training right now. You can't not get stronger from 5x12 front squats. I like how the program is laid out generally, I used the peak strength template where I did my main movement and my variation for the alternative lift on the same day, which I think let me go harder overall. I also think the exercise selection is good, I loved BtN press, front squats, pause squats, and SLDLs. I mixed it up with the bench variations because my weakness is off my chest in particular. As for things I would tweak if I ran it again, I would probably limit the number of AMRAPs somehow. I found it really mentally tough to do an AMRAP every training day for 18 weeks, knowing that I couldn't phone it in because the progression was based on them. For the peak phase I started to set a goal weight for the top end of each wave that I worked up to (e.g. wanting to squat 315x3 at the end of the first wave) and so I think I would keep the AMRAPs for the base phase and switch to percentage increases in the peak phase. I also found that I totally outpaced the progression because I got so much stronger (feature, not a bug). Keeping my original training maxes meant the first week in the peak phase would have been really, really light. I think adjusting between phases is a good idea. I added a deload between the phases as well which was definitely needed. Overall, I absolutely loved the program, learned a lot from it, and I'm keeping a lot of the principles and lessons in mind as I design my training moving forward. Thanks for all your content!
@TheAndsometimeschris
I was planning on running 70s powerlifter a few weeks from now,but this has me wanting to run this. Great video.
@wolfboy2406
Just finished the 3 base blocks, not gonna do the peaking block but results have been amazing. Got my squat from 150 to ~200, bench from 90 to ~100, and deadlifts from 180 to ~210. Genuinely the best program for squats, at least for me, I guess I am a hyper responder of the intense volume you would get from squats in this program. Would recommend this program to anyone, maybe a little more bench volume and on the final block I stuck to 5 sets instead of moving to 6. Also would use 70% as the starting week 1, 75% for block 2 week 1 and 80% for block 3 week 1. 👍
@justingumlaw6637
I just finished week 8, and it's the biggest strength gains i have ever seen in myself. I have added 100 lbs to my deadlift and 50 lbs to my squat and bench.
@AlexanderBromley