Question 1 of 2
Once a year, six events, scored out of 600, in front of a standard that doesn’t care how you felt that morning.
Question 2 of 2
Or trained conjugate for a year or more — max-effort work, dynamic-effort work, accommodating resistance, the Olympic lifts.
Question 2 of 2
The Olympic lifts. There is no wrong answer here.
Your road
The conjugate road · the on-ramp
You want the Standard, and you haven’t run the conjugate road yet. Nobody starts at the flagship — you earn the right to it. This is the door.
It won’t peak you. It gets you qualified to be peaked — and it will teach you lifts you can’t currently do.
Where it goesIt ends at the Standard. Pass it and Conjugate Hybrid Training is next.
Your road
The conjugate road · the flagship
You want the Standard and you’ve already done the conjugate work. You’re not on the on-ramp any more.
It won’t be convenient. It asks for specialty bars, an engine, and your whole year.
Where it goesThe Standard, scored out of 600. Fail, Pass, Capable, Dangerous, Elite.
Your road
The program you’ll actually run
Heavy barbell work and real pump work, six days on and two off every eight, in any conventional gym. Every lift in it is one you already know how to do.
It does not prepare you for the Struggle Standard test, and it isn’t trying to. That’s a boundary, not a weakness.
Where it goesCycle Zero — the free 8-day ramp-in that sets your six training maxes — is on the page. Run it before you pay anything.
You said maybe someday on the test. Good — that door doesn’t close, and this program will make you a stronger man walking through it. When you want it, Earn The Right is where it starts.
You want to learn the Olympic lifts, and this program doesn’t teach them. If that matters more than the rest, look at Earn The Right instead — that’s where they’re taught from zero.
See Push. Pull. Legs. →Earn The Right → Conjugate Hybrid. Two roads, two different questions. Neither one is the beginner version of the other.
Look at the conjugate road →