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» Anyone heard of PHAT and PHUL power building programs?
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post 10000012139 01-14-2026, 11:01 PM
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Anyone heard of PHAT and PHUL power building programs?

https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/phul-workout
https://www.hevyapp.com/phat-workout/

Phat is a lot of volume and Phul is pretty much all compounds

Thinking of doing phul now that I’m over calisthenics
post 10000012153 01-14-2026, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted By lowkey94
https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/phul-workout
https://www.hevyapp.com/phat-workout/

Phat is a lot of volume and Phul is pretty much all compounds

Thinking of doing phul now that I’m over calisthenics
I've run both programs and they're both solid. Choose one to try for your goal at the moment and see how you like it. I'll be honest though, the Phat program is brutal and I had trouble recovering from one workout to the next. It's a lot of volume and I was also dieting down for shows...would be better suited for off season when eating at maintenance cals or slight surplus if you're looking to build...

Just my opinion
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post 10000012156 01-14-2026, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted By lowkey94
https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/phul-workout
https://www.hevyapp.com/phat-workout/

Phat is a lot of volume and Phul is pretty much all compounds

Thinking of doing phul now that I’m over calisthenics
They're both great, ran one of them back in 2019ish. They take a while though, long workouts.
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post 10000012159 01-14-2026, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted By kimm4
I've run both programs and they're both solid. Choose one to try for your goal at the moment and see how you like it. I'll be honest though, the Phat program is brutal and I had trouble recovering from one workout to the next. It's a lot of volume and I was also dieting down for shows...would be better suited for off season when eating at maintenance cals or slight surplus if you're looking to build...

Just my opinion
Thanks for the insight mam
post 10000012160 01-14-2026, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted By BigGuyForYou
They're both great, ran one of them back in 2019ish. They take a while though, long workouts.
Preciate it big dog
post 10000012184 01-15-2026, 12:24 AM
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post 10000012195 01-15-2026, 12:51 AM
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LMAO at all that garbage volume

Unless you're at a significant caloric surplus and sleeping 10+ hours a day - while on 500mg test a week at a minimum - there is no way you're making significant progress following this
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post 10000012218 01-15-2026, 03:00 AM
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Ya I've heard of those programs. They're pretty old school. I never used them, or any other program. I just focused on progressively overloading, learning and incorporating different approaches to do so along the way.

Programs that are very high volume are not suitable for naturals that are strong. With the amount of weight they can use, they simply won't recover from high volume work. People underestimate how draining just 3 hard sets on a heavy exercise is, just because the number '3' seems small. If you go to within less than one rep of failure every working set, 3 to 5 heavy sets is all you can really do if natural and strong.
post 10000012229 01-15-2026, 03:30 AM
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