#47 - The 5 Training Principles Every Workout Plan Needs to Build Muscle & Strength

Choose Hard

Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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If your training isn’t built on these 5 principles… you’re leaving gains on the table. In this episode of the Choose Hard Podcast, host Cody McBroom breaks down the non-negotiables that must be present in your weekly training plan to build serious strength and muscle — without burning out, plateauing, or getting bored. You’ll learn: The fundamental movement patterns to include in every program How to optimize training volume for hypertrophy and performance The progression methods that keep gains coming long-term Why individualizing exercise selection beats cookie-cutter workouts And how to make training fun, so you stay consistent for life This episode combines real-world coaching experience with research-backed strategies, giving you the blueprint for programming workouts that deliver results—and keep doing so for years to come. www.choose-hard.com www.tailoredcoachingmethod.com www.thetailoredtrainer.com THINGS MENTIONED: - Exercise Selection Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3aT7PNI9A&t=829s - The Tailored Trainer App: www.thetailoredtrainer.com --- YOU CAN NOW WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE, TO SEE CODY’S SLIDE DECKS & VISUAL COACHING, AT THE CHOOSE HARD YOUTUBE PLAYLIST! --- 🚀1-ON-1 COACHING: ⁠https://www.tailored-coaching.com/apply-podcast ⁠ 💊 Jocko Fuel (Use Discount Code CHOOSEHARD10 for 10% Off Your Order) 📲 TRY MY TRAINING APP FOR FREE: ⁠http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com/⁠ 🛒 GRAB YOUR CHOOSE HARD TRUCKER HAT & DAILY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL: www.tailoredcoachingmethod.shop 👥 TAILORED COACHING COLLECTIVE (OUR COMMUNITY): ⁠http://www.tailored-coaching.com/tailored-collective⁠ --- 🎙️LISTEN TO OUR CLIENT’S TELL THEIR TRANSFORMATION STORIES, ON THE TAILORED TRANSFORMATIONS PODCAST: - SPOTIFY: ⁠https://bit.ly/tlrd-transformations-spotify⁠ - APPLE PODCASTS:⁠https://apple.co/3GPlDxG⁠ --- GET MORE FREE CONTENT AT THE LINKS BELOW: 📖 FREE ARTICLES: ⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/blog⁠ 💾 FREE GUIDES: ⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/guides⁠ IG -⁠https://www.instagram.com/codymcbroom⁠ YOUTUBE -⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/codymcbroom1⁠ INQUIRIES – ⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.
0:06.1	You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy.
0:10.0	Everything you want in life begins with a hard path.
0:14.3	Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast, the one and only fitness and nutrition podcast that goes way beyond just training and nutrition
0:21.3	and helps you choose hard and transform your body and your mind. I'm your host, Cody McBroom,
0:27.6	and today we are going to dive into training principles for body transformation. So today's
0:35.2	is going to be the five, I would call them pillars of program
0:39.0	design. These are five things that are unbelievably important when it comes to ensuring you have
0:45.6	a program that is built and designed to actually get you results. There is so many people that follow
0:55.0	programs that aren't even programs. They are training plans that are just a list of exercises.
1:00.0	They're not, it's literally like, what do you feel like doing the gym?
1:03.0	Let's just go have fun.
1:04.0	Let's go use some machines.
1:05.0	Let's get a sweat.
1:06.0	It's training without direction.
1:08.0	And so if you're somebody who wants to train with a purpose, you want to train with a specific direction. And most of all, you want to do those things in an intentional way that actually leads you to the destination you're after. It takes you to the result you are chasing the goal that you really want to achieve. This podcast is for you. And I'm going to try to boil down these five principles
1:28.0	in such a simple and streamlined way that you can literally take this podcast. You can go
1:32.6	create a program based on what you hear or you can use this as a filter against what you're
1:39.0	doing in the gym, against the plan you're following and ensure that you are doing the right things
1:43.3	in the right way to get you to
1:44.8	the right goal. So let's dive in. The five principles that I'm going to touch on today,
1:51.8	and I'm going to run through these quickly and then I'm going to break each one down individually.
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