Gym or garage? Buy the right one

The Apex Programme. Built for a gym floor: machines, cables and a Smith bar do the loading, all standard kit that most gyms have. See it

The Garage Programme. Built for home: a pair of dumbbells, a barbell and a bench. No rack, no machines. This one

The 16-Week Garage Programme

£25.00

(1 customer review)

A 16-week powerbuilding programme for the home lifter. Whole body, every other day, on nothing but dumbbells, a barbell and a bench.

Rep-ladder progression, a training log that knows your rotation, wall-ready session cards. Instant PDF download.

Equipment: home. A pair of dumbbells, a barbell and plates, a bench, and bands for the warm-up. No rack, no machines, no cables. Training in a gym? Take the Apex Programme instead.

Every plan comes with a 31-day trial of the Inner Ruminati: member prices on everything and the members’ dashboard. The trial is free, no card is taken and nothing renews: when the month ends it simply lapses, and nothing you have logged is deleted. Go annual for £39/yr and two books, The Ruminati Volume One and Bring Back the Dripping, are free too.

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The Kit · What This Plan Runs On

A pair of dumbbells · A barbell and plates · A bench · Bands for the warm-up

No rack. No machines. No cables. Every barbell lift starts from the floor and every press is done with dumbbells, so nothing in the sixteen weeks ever asks for equipment you do not have.

What You Get

A complete 16-week powerbuilding programme built for the garage and the spare room, delivered as three printable PDFs the moment you pay.

Whole body, every other day. Train, rest, train, rest, for sixteen weeks. Twelve or thirteen working sets per session, four compound lifts at the front, short accessory work at the back, everything run on the same 4-6 rep ladder that drives the Apex Programme in the gym.

The Three Files

  • The Plan, a 66-page book: the programme, the rep ladder, the every-other-day rhythm, eight full lift guides for home barbell and dumbbell work, the band warm-up circuit, an optional low-impact cardio protocol, and a repair manual for stalls, missed weeks and the dumbbell jump problem.
  • The Training Log, one page per week for sixteen weeks. It already knows the rotation: every page is pre-printed with the exact sessions that land that week and the rep target the ladder asks of them.
  • The Session Cards, three wall-ready cards, one per session, plus a warm-up card to pin by the bands.

Built To Be Used, Not Just Read

The book is interactive end to end: a garage kit audit, a Week 1 calibration sheet, a plan-your-sixteen-weeks worksheet, block trackers, a PR ledger, and a final before-and-after page called The Sixteen. QR codes link straight into the free Ruminati tools, so the rep ladder planner does your starting maths and the strength test ranks your Week 1 against your Week 16.

Who It’s For

Anyone with a pair of dumbbells, a barbell and a bench who wants to get objectively stronger over four months without ever queueing for equipment. Beginners calibrate in Week 1 and climb from there. Experienced lifters get the same ladder with heavier numbers.

What It’s Not

It is not a bodyweight plan, and it is not a circuit-training app subscription in disguise. It is a strength and size programme that happens to live thirty seconds from your kettle.

Train in a gym instead? You want The 16-Week Apex Programme, the same system built for machines and cables.

Map the progression before you buy if you want to see it: the free rep ladder planner runs the same engine, and the strength test gives you a Week 1 number to beat. The case for low volume and high frequency is in the training guide.

Training without the nutrition is half the work. The Carnivore Diet Plan is the eating framework this programme is built to run on.

£25 one-off payment. Instant download, three PDFs, yours to keep forever.


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1 review for The 16-Week Garage Programme

  1. Joseph Horner (verified owner)

    I really like the garage program. The workload progression works well for a man of 55 years. I’m not overly sore and can recover quickly, but I don’t feel like it’s too easy. Also, I like the progressive warmup, something I haven’t really experienced in life before and feel like it prepares me to do the work.

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