If you’re reading this, you’re most likely familiar with training. Still, you may have been conditioned through your fitness pursuits to read and understand programming in a specific way based on the style of training you followed and the coaches you have had, or you haven’t learned how to read “training language” at all. We need to fix that.

Since the Space Program is a place for various coaches around the world to creatively express and share their views of fitness in a manner that’s different from the traditional views of what a “program” is, we deemed it necessary to create an On-Ramp Program to help you better understand how this program can work for you. 

The Space Program heavily emphasizes autonomy, which means the sessions you do and when you choose to do them are completely up to you. One of the biggest contributing factors to a lack of progression and motivation is to allow a schedule to dictate how, what, and when you should train. A calendar does not take into consideration your sleep quality or life stressors. While other programs will instruct you to “just do the work,” they don’t ever contend with much of the “work” is understanding what and when you should train.

The Escape Velocity Program is designed to be done in order. However, It is up to you to decide whether you have what it takes to do that particular session on that day. Feel free to always implement rest or recovery days when you feel you need them. This means our 6-week program may take you 8-9 weeks to complete and there is nothing wrong with that; it shows an important aspect of your own development, and that is that you are considering your own state and progression.

By doing this program you will get more fit, but the intention is for you to learn about training. This starts with understanding the language of training. Each and every genre in fitness might have its own special language, which makes it confusing. We start by defining what we mean, we recommend reading through our definitions here. Some of this is technical with a lot of physiology, but we frame it for the average user who wants to figure out training to improve their fitness.

Generally speaking, many other programs hold your hand throughout the entire process allowing you to move through your week of training with little attention to what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. The problem is that you never really learn how to develop yourself or know what to do on the day without specific guidance. Our program aims to teach participants how to train and, more importantly, think for themselves. The idea of doing it for oneself carries with it quite a bit of trepidation, so the goal of this 6-week on-ramp is to eliminate as much of that as possible. 

In this program, you will have 3x hard sessions and 3x exploratory sessions per week, and at least one dedicated rest day. Think of the “Hard” sessions as a stimulus that requires a day to recover. Use the exploratory days to mitigate this recovery, using the structure but gearing it towards your intention. Sometimes this takes reducing the intensity or not loading it as recommended. If you need to, please default to adding in recovery days while you put the program on pause until you feel compelled to continue.

If you want to see progress, we recommend testing a few parameters for a baseline of where you’re at. After completing the program, rest a week or so and then retest the sessions. Choose tests that are relevant to you and your goals.

Above all else, stay curious and reach out with any questions you may have.

Enjoy!