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It is Sunday night and
you are starting again.

The Year-Round Shred: The 12-Week Shoulder-To-Waist Cut

The free program is open on your phone. Six days a week. Nothing in it about the week you get sick, the Tuesday you slept four hours, or the fortnight you are away for work. You have run this exact evening before, and you already know which Tuesday it ends on.

This one is written to be finished, and it is aimed at one thing: the man who looks like he lifts in any month of the year. Shoulders wider than the waist, a shirt that sits differently in March and in October, summer-ready in every season because the block got finished instead of restarted.

Why you are here

You have trained for years and you still do not look like you train

Not a beginner. You know what a set is, you know your bench number, and you have run somebody's program before. You have probably paid for one. And you stopped, somewhere around week five, and the program was not bad.

It had exactly one version of Tuesday. On the Tuesday you slept four hours and had eleven things on, the file had nothing to say, so you skipped it. Then Thursday, because the week was already broken. Two weeks later you were not opening it at all, and you told yourself you lack consistency.

You do not lack consistency. You had a file with one branch. Free programs ship the sessions. They do not ship the bad day, the stalled lift, the machine somebody is sitting on, the travel week, or the week after the twelve weeks end. Those five things are what actually decides whether a block finishes, and none of them are in the sessions.

So this file ships all five, and every one of its forty eight sessions exists three times.

What twelve weeks is aimed at

A Tuesday morning, in a shirt you already own

Not a photoshoot and not a beach. An ordinary Tuesday in March. You pull a shirt off the pile, one you have had for two years, and it sits differently across the shoulders and it is not tight where it was tight.

You do not do the check. The one where you turn slightly at the mirror, find the angle, decide whether it stays on. You put it on and you leave the house, and at some point that week somebody at work asks whether you have been doing something.

That is the whole outcome and it is a shape outcome, not a scale outcome. How wide you read in a shirt is set by the distance across your shoulders against the distance around your waist. This program is weighted at that ratio rather than at your bench number, which is why one in three of your working sets goes to the side of your shoulder and the width of your back, and why nothing at all goes to loaded side bends.

Underneath that, the thing that is worth more in a year: you finished a twelve week block. Not because you were finally consistent. Because on the four days a fortnight when you were wrecked, the file had a version of that day already written, and you ran it, and the week stayed intact.

Run it this week before you pay

Session four, in full, all three versions

Not a preview, not a mockup, not a table of contents. This is week one day four exactly as the product renders it, green, amber and red, with the same sets, reps, rest clocks and cues you would get after paying. Take it into your gym this week. If it is not better than what you already have open, do not buy the other forty seven.

Free sample · Week 1, day 4

Lower B, squat led, plus delts

Green version 39 minutes at the rest printed Block A, week 1 of 4
A

Hack squat

3 x 8 reps, stop with three clean reps left
Feet mid platform, go to a depth you can control, come out of the bottom without bouncing.
165s
rest
B

Hip thrust

3 x 12 reps, stop with three clean reps left
Chin tucked, ribs down, two second squeeze at the top. Bar over your hips, not your stomach.
120s
rest
C1

Seated dumbbell lateral raise

3 x 12 reps, stop with two clean reps left
Sitting takes out the hip drive you did not know you were using. The load drops and that is correct.
75s
rest
C2

Lying leg curl

3 x 12 reps, stop with two clean reps left
Hips stay flat on the pad. If your hips are lifting, the weight is doing the choosing.
75s
rest
D1

Rope face pull

2 x 15 reps, stop with one clean rep left in you
Same as day one. Third exposure of the week for the back of your shoulder, and it is deliberate.
60s
rest
D2

Overhead triceps extension

2 x 15 reps, stop with one clean rep left in you
Rope or a single dumbbell, elbows pointed forward and held there, full stretch at the bottom.
60s
rest
E

Side plank

2 x 30s, bodyweight hold, each side. There is no load to take off this one.
Both sides. Anti lateral flexion, isometric, no load. This is the only trunk work here that is not anti extension.
45s
rest
Green. 2 superset pairs (the numbered letters run back to back), built to run in 39 minutes at the rest intervals printed. Log your top set on Hack squat in the tracker before you leave.
The same session, amber

Five hours of sleep, or day three in a row

Amber version 29 minutes at the rest printed Two thirds of the sets
A

Hack squat

2 x 8 reps, about ten percent under your green load, and stop with three clean reps left
Feet mid platform, go to a depth you can control, come out of the bottom without bouncing.
165s
rest
B

Hip thrust

2 x 12 reps, about ten percent under your green load, and stop with three clean reps left
Chin tucked, ribs down, two second squeeze at the top. Bar over your hips, not your stomach.
120s
rest
C1

Seated dumbbell lateral raise

2 x 12 reps, about ten percent under your green load, and stop with three clean reps left
Sitting takes out the hip drive you did not know you were using. The load drops and that is correct.
75s
rest
C2

Lying leg curl

2 x 12 reps, about ten percent under your green load, and stop with three clean reps left
Hips stay flat on the pad. If your hips are lifting, the weight is doing the choosing.
75s
rest
D1

Rope face pull

2 x 15 reps, about ten percent under your green load, and stop with two clean reps left
Same as day one. Third exposure of the week for the back of your shoulder, and it is deliberate.
60s
rest
D2

Overhead triceps extension

2 x 15 reps, about ten percent under your green load, and stop with two clean reps left
Rope or a single dumbbell, elbows pointed forward and held there, full stretch at the bottom.
60s
rest
E

Side plank

2 x 30s, bodyweight hold, each side. There is no load to take off this one.
Both sides. Anti lateral flexion, isometric, no load. This is the only trunk work here that is not anti extension.
45s
rest
Amber. Two thirds of the sets, one load step down, 2 superset pairs, out in about 29 minutes. You trained. The week is intact and next week is unaffected.
The same session, red

Four hours of sleep, fourth day in a row, or the day it all went wrong

Red version 9 minutes at the rest printed One movement
A

Leg press

2 x 10 reps, the lightest load you have used for this movement in this block
Not a working weight. The lightest. Two sets, then you leave. This is a completed session and the week is intact.
120s
rest
Red. One movement, two sets, out in about 9 minutes including the warm up. Then walk your nine thousand steps. Mark it red and it counts as a completed session, because it is one.
Three taps decide which of those you run, and the three questions are sleep, soreness at the muscles you are about to train, and whether this is your third or fourth session in a row. The scoring is printed in the file so it cannot drift with your mood at 6am.
Twenty of the one hundred and forty

The substitution index, sampled

Indexed on equipment and availability only. Somebody is on the cable station. The rack has a queue. The hotel dumbbells stop at fifty. You have twenty five minutes. Twenty real entries, copied out of the file.

The one rule about pain

If a movement produces pain, stop the movement and see a clinician. That is the only instruction the file gives on the subject, and there is no substitution listed for it anywhere in the index. Pain is not an equipment problem and it is not treated like one here.

Rack taken
Back squat
Run instead: Hack squat, same sets and reps
The rack was the only thing you needed. The machine holds the bar for you and the load lands in the same range.
Rack taken
Back squat
Run instead: Leg press, add one set
Easier to overload without a spotter, so take the extra set to make up the shortfall.
Rack taken
Standing barbell overhead press
Run instead: Seated dumbbell shoulder press, same sets and reps
Nothing about the press needs a rack except getting the bar to your shoulders.
Rack taken
Hip thrust
Run instead: 45 degree back extension, same sets, four more reps
Most racks double as the bench people thrust against.
Cable station taken
Cable lateral raise
Run instead: Dumbbell lateral raise, same sets, two more reps
The dumbbell loses tension at the bottom, so the reps go up to pay for it.
Cable station taken
Rope face pull
Run instead: Reverse pec deck, same sets and reps
Same target at the back of the shoulder with no cable involved.
Cable station taken
Cable triceps pushdown
Run instead: Overhead dumbbell triceps extension, same sets and reps
Different angle on the same muscle, and it needs one dumbbell.
Bench taken
Flat barbell bench press
Run instead: Machine chest press, same sets and reps
Fixed path, no bench needed, no spotter needed.
Bench taken
Incline barbell press
Run instead: Standing landmine press, same sets, two more reps
Bar in a corner, one end loaded, press up and slightly across your body.
Bench taken
Hip thrust
Run instead: Glute bridge from the floor, same sets, six more reps
Shorter range from the floor, so the reps go up.
No machine here
Hack squat
Run instead: Front squat, same sets, two fewer reps
Closest free weight match for the upright torso.
No machine here
Leg press
Run instead: Bulgarian split squat, same sets, double the reps per leg
The single leg version is the closest free weight match for total load on the quad.
No machine here
Machine chest press
Run instead: Push up with your feet on a bench, sets to two short of failure
No load to set up, and the feet up version makes it hard enough to matter.
Dumbbells only
Incline barbell press
Run instead: Incline dumbbell press, same sets and reps
The straight swap. Match reps, not bar weight.
Dumbbells only
Back squat
Run instead: Dumbbell front rack squat, same sets, four more reps
Two dumbbells at your shoulders. The load runs out fast, so the reps go up.
Dumbbells stop at fifty
Flat dumbbell press
Run instead: Same movement, reps to twenty, then five slow ones at three seconds down
The load ceiling is fixed, so the set has to get harder some other way.
Hotel gym
Incline barbell press
Run instead: Incline dumbbell press at the heaviest pair there, reps to the top of the range
Hotel racks stop light. Take the reps up, not the load.
Home, bands only
Flat barbell bench press
Run instead: Band push up with your feet elevated, sets to two reps short of failure
Band across your back, hands on the floor, feet on a chair.
Smith machine only
Flat barbell bench press
Run instead: Smith flat press, feet flat, bar to the same point, stop two reps short
The bar path is fixed and there is no spotter, so leave more in the tank than you would free.
Floor is packed
Any superset pair
Run instead: Run the two movements straight through as singles at the printed rest, and accept about eight extra minutes
Do not stand guarding two stations on a packed floor. It costs you eight minutes and it costs everybody else more.

One hundred and twenty more, across twelve situations, searchable by movement. That is what stops a taken machine from becoming a skipped session, which is the second most common way a twelve week block dies.

What you get

Six things, and you have now read two of them

48 sessions, 144 written versionsTwelve weeks, four days a week, every session written green, amber and red with its own sets, reps, rest clocks and cues. Exercises rotate at week five and week nine. Every green session is built to run in fifty minutes at the rest intervals printed, and the clock on each one is calculated, not estimated.
$99
The Substitution Index, 140 entriesTwelve situations, searchable by movement. Rack taken, cable station taken, dumbbells stop at fifty, hotel gym, bands only, floor is packed, twenty five minutes on the clock. Equipment and availability only.
$29
The Auto-Calculating TrackerYou enter one top set. It returns every number for that lift next week, warm ups included, plus the amber load and the red load. It warns you on first open that the data is browser local and prompts a one tap export at the end of every session.
$29
Out By FiftyAll forty eight sessions on one printable page with their superset pairs, rest clocks, calculated minutes and a running total. Usable in the gym without opening the session page at all.
$19
The Deload Trigger CardThree named conditions that fire a deload. Two are measured off your own log, one is a rating and it is labelled as a rating. Triggered rather than scheduled, because a scheduled deload gets skipped by exactly the man who needs it. The deload week is written out in full.
$15
Week ThirteenThree paths, the one observable that picks between them, and the maintenance prescription written out. This is the part that decides whether twelve weeks of work is still visible in a year.
$15
Priced separately$206

Those six have never been sold separately at those prices, and there is no crossed out number on this page pretending otherwise. That is what each part costs to build and what it is worth to use. The only price ever charged for it is the one below.

Also inside

Twelve printable weekly cards

One week per page, grayscale, no images. Stated plainly in the file: the printed cards are the primary record and the browser tracker is the convenience copy.

Also inside

Sunday in forty minutes

Five repeatable meals, a shopping list per four week block, your protein floor calculated from your bodyweight, and the rule that removes every food decision Monday to Friday.

Also inside

No cardio sessions

Nine thousand steps a day and the three reasons it replaces every treadmill session. Nothing to schedule, nothing to skip, nothing to defend to yourself on a Friday.

Also inside

One lift stalled, three moving

The most common real case in week seven, in four steps, in order. Including the two things you must not do, which are the two things everybody does.

Also inside

The three photographs

Weeks one, six and twelve. Four positions, and the four things that have to be identical for the comparison to mean anything.

Also inside

The Shoulder-To-Waist Sequence

The movement selection and the weekly volume ledger, printed in numbers, so you can count the sets yourself rather than take my word for the weighting.

$67
One payment. Yours permanently. No subscription and nothing renews.
48 sessions, 144 written versions 140 substitution entries 12 printable weekly cards Interactive web tool, works on your phone No coaching included No calls, no replies, no community
All sales are final, and here is why. This is a complete file and you get all of it the second you pay, so there is nothing to give back. That is exactly why session four is printed above in all three versions, why twenty index entries are printed above it, and why I will tell you plainly below when this is not for you. Decide before you buy, not after.
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Do not buy this if

  • You have not trained consistently for at least six months. A man in his first year gets almost the same result from any free four day split, because everything works at the start. Pay for this when free has stopped working on you, not before.
  • You want six days a week. This is four, and the fifth and sixth days are deliberately not here. If you want more days you already have programs that will give them to you for nothing.
  • You are chasing a bench number. The movement selection is weighted at how wide you read in a shirt, not at a total. A dedicated strength program will move your bench further than this will.
  • You want somebody to answer you. There is no coaching, no calls, no replies, no community and no form review in this. That is what makes it sixty seven dollars instead of several hundred a month.
  • You have a current or past eating disorder, or restricting food has been a problem for you before.
  • You are being treated for a heart, kidney, liver or metabolic condition, or you take blood pressure medication, and you have not spoken to your doctor about starting resistance training and eating less. That is a conversation with your physician, not a file you bought.

If you are not sure which of those you are, take the free qualifier first. It takes twenty minutes, it costs nothing, and two of its possible answers tell you to spend nothing.

Before you ask

The questions I would ask

Are there really 144 versions, or is it 48 sessions with a note saying do less?

Session four is printed above in all three, with its own sets, reps, rest clocks and calculated clock. Every one of the forty eight is written the same way. Red is not a rest day and it is not a note, it is a named movement, two sets and a load instruction.

Is it really fifty minutes?

Every green session is built to run in fifty minutes at the rest intervals printed, and the clock shown on each one is calculated from those intervals and the set count. The longest session in the twelve weeks is fifty minutes and the shortest is thirty eight. If somebody is on the machine you need, that clock is longer, and no file can fix a queue. That is what the substitution index is for.

Do I get to message you?

No. No coaching, no calls, no replies, no community, no form review and no individual health answers. I am a nurse, but I am not your nurse, and buying this does not make me one.

Is there a refund?

No. All sales are final, which is exactly why a full session and twenty index entries are printed on this page. You can run session four in your own gym this week and decide with your own hands.

Is this a PDF?

No. It is an interactive page that runs on your phone with no login, plus twelve printable weekly cards. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. The tracker takes one top set and returns every number for that lift next week.

What if my phone clears its storage?

Your log lives in the page link, so a bookmark brings it back, and there is a one tap export prompted at the end of every session. The file says all of this on first open rather than after you have lost twelve weeks of top sets. The printed cards are the primary record and it says that too.

What if I can only train three days some weeks?

Run days one, two and three and drop day four that week. That is also the maintenance prescription in week thirteen, so it is a shape the program already knows how to be.

Why are there no testimonials on this page?

Because this shelf is new and I will not borrow proof from a different audience to sell you a file. The sample above is the proof. Run it, then decide.

Is there a supplement, a cleanse or a last week trick?

None. No affiliate links, nothing to cut in the final week, nothing to load, and no product I sell. The nutrition is five repeatable meals, a shopping list and a protein floor.

You have never actually finished one

That is the real thing here, and you already know it. Years of training, several programs, and not one twelve week block finished from the first session to the last. Which means you do not actually know what you look like after twelve consecutive weeks, because you have never seen it.

Not through lack of effort. You have done plenty of hard sessions. You have never had a file that had already decided what happens on the Tuesday you slept four hours, so that Tuesday cost you the week, and the week cost you the block, every time.

Sixty seven dollars buys the thing that turns four wrecked days into four amber and red sessions instead of four skipped ones. That is the entire difference between a block you finish and a block you abandon, and it is the only difference between this and what you have open on your phone right now.

Run session four this week before you decide. It is free and it is up there in full. If it is not better than the free one, you have lost an hour and a Tuesday, and you will know something either way.