The highest-volume way to get big and get strong.
Gladiator Camp is the work-capacity track. You build with brutal volume — 8×8 down to ramped 6×6 — then sharpen it into a heavier competition lift. Most programs make you pick size or strength. This one stacks them in order.
Build the engine, then express it.
High-arch competition form doesn't tolerate 8×8 — so you don't build on it. You build on the variation that grows, then bring the comp lift back when it's time to be strong. Accumulation makes the tissue; realization makes the number.
Highest volume
More total work than any other camp. Size, conditioning, and the ability to recover from hard training all go up.
Builder-first
The main work runs on a variation chosen for your body and leverages — not your tightest comp setup. Grow without grinding your joints.
Build, don't bounce
Tempo and pause work teach you to own every position. Strength built on control holds up under a heavy single.
Five phases, one direction.
Accumulation — 8×8
Highest volume of the camp. Eight sets of eight on a builder variation, run for density. This is where the size and work capacity get built.
6×6 — Tempo half
Slow the eccentric, own the bottom. Lighter loads, longer time under tension — tendons, positions, and control.
6×6 — Force half
Same volume frame, now ramped. Heavier loads, explosive concentric. Turn the new tissue into output.
Intensification — 4×3+AMRAP
Reps come down, intent goes up. Comp-form variants come back as the supporting lift. Strength starts to express.
Realization — 5×3 → peak
Express everything the accumulation built — on the competition lift this time. Openers, attempts, a peak.
Every block ends with a deload. Loads progress off your own performance, not a fixed percentage chart — you earn the next jump.
I'm running it. Watch the build.
I'm back under the bar on a Gladiator bench specialization — the 8×8 → 6×6 → peak wave, on camera, in real time. Same system you'd run. Follow the reps, the misses, and the numbers as they move.
Phase 01
8×8 bench
64 reps of pressing for density. Week-by-week on film.
Phase 03
6×6 force
Same volume, heavier and faster. The turn from size to output.
Phase 05
The peak
What the accumulation was for — a new bench, on a comp setup.
Who Gladiator is for.
- — You want size and strength, and you'll trade some specificity to get there.
- — You're coming back from time off and need to rebuild work capacity first.
- — You recover well and actually want the volume.
- — You can run a single lift hard — Gladiator specializes cleanly (bench, squat, or pull).
Who it isn't.
- — You're two weeks out from a meet — you want a peak, not accumulation.
- — You can't recover from high volume right now (sleep, stress, time).
- — You only want the minimum effective dose. That's a different camp.
Not sure which camp fits? That's what the application call is for.
Build the engine.
Apply, and we'll set you up on the Gladiator track — your lifts, your equipment, your schedule — drafted to you and dialed in before it's live.