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Character Attack on Titan

Eren Yeager

Attack Titan

Eren's power comes from his refusal to accept limits. His program is built for beginners who want to start from zero and build toward something meaningful driven by the same anger that fuels Eren.

8 Weeks 5 days/week Beginner Calisthenics
Eren Yeager
Eren Yeager Training Program

Training Progression

At A Glance

Weekly Schedule

MON
Day 1
Core & Conditioning
TUE
Day 2
Upper Body
WED
Day 3
Cardio & Work Capacity
THU
Rest
FRI
Day 4
Full Body Power
SAT
Day 5
Agility & Mobility
SUN
Rest
5 Training Days 30–40 Min / Session
Equipment
Agility Ladder Bar or Rings Bench Bodyweight Bodyweight or Dumbbell Jump Rope Parallel Bars Pull-up Bar Resistance Band Track or Open Space
The Complete Plan

Training Plan

Every phase, every session, every exercise — expand a day to see the full prescription.

Phase 1 · Weeks 1–4 Beginner

First Steps

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Bodyweight strength base and core control at a genuinely beginner pace — plenty left in the tank (target RIR 3). Conditioning is trained from week 1 across three of five days, matching the legacy source's own cardio-heavy weekly identity.

5 Workouts In This Phase
Core & Conditioning
Monday · 30 min · 4 exercises
Plank
3 × 30s · 45s rest
Hanging Knee Raise
3 × 8 · 60s restRIR 3
Side Plank
Each side
3 × 15s · 45s rest
Jump Rope
Steady, sustainable pace
1 × 600s
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Upper Body
Tuesday · 35 min · 4 exercises
Inverted Row
3 × 8 · 60s restRIR 3
Push-Up
Close hand position for triceps emphasis
3 × 8 · 60s restRIR 3
Assisted Pull-Up
Wide grip. Band or assisted machine — full pull-ups arrive in Rising Strength
3 × 5 · 90s restRIR 3
Dip
3 × 6 · 75s restRIR 3
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Cardio & Work Capacity
Wednesday · 30 min · 3 exercises
Jump Rope
1 × 600s
Reverse Lunge
3 × 8 each side · 60s restRIR 3
Sprint Intervals
Hard effort, not all-out — build pacing control first
3 × 20s · 90s rest
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Full Body Power
Friday · 35 min · 6 exercises
Burpee
3 × 6 · 60s rest
Squat
3 × 10 · 90s restRIR 3
Push-Up
3 × 8 · 60s restRIR 3
Assisted Pull-Up
3 × 5 · 90s restRIR 3
Broad Jump
Box/tuck jump family — vertical and lateral variations both fine
3 × 4 · 90s rest
Mountain Climber
3 × 25s · 45s rest
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Agility & Mobility
Saturday · 30 min · 5 exercises
Agility Ladder Drills
Prioritize clean footwork over speed
3 × 25s · 60s rest
Jump Rope
1 × 600s
Broad Jump
3 × 4 · 75s rest
Hanging Knee Raise
3 × 8 · 60s restRIR 3
Hollow Hold
Wall handstand hold substitute — shoulder and core stability under load
3 × 15s · 45s rest
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Phase 2 · Weeks 5–8 Intermediate

Rising Strength

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A second pulling angle and harder pushing variant unlock, conditioning density increases, and effort tightens to target RIR 2 — real, measurable progress from where the program started.

5 Workouts In This Phase
Core & Conditioning
Monday · 35 min · 4 exercises
Plank
4 × 45s · 45s rest
Hanging Knee Raise
4 × 10 · 60s restRIR 2
Side Plank
Each side
4 × 20s · 45s rest
Jump Rope
1 × 600s
Open Full Session
Upper Body
Tuesday · 40 min · 5 exercises
Inverted Row
4 × 10 · 60s restRIR 2
Feet-Elevated Push-Up
Decline-style, for added chest/triceps emphasis
3 × 8 · 75s restRIR 2
Pull-Up
Wide grip, unassisted now
3 × 5 · 90s restRIR 2
Dip
4 × 8 · 75s restRIR 2
Chin-Up
Close grip — the second pulling angle debuts here
3 × 5 · 90s restRIR 2
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Cardio & Work Capacity
Wednesday · 35 min · 3 exercises
Jump Rope
1 × 600s
Reverse Lunge
4 × 10 each side · 60s restRIR 2
Sprint Intervals
4 × 20s · 75s rest
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Full Body Power
Friday · 40 min · 6 exercises
Burpee
4 × 8 · 60s rest
Squat
4 × 12 · 90s restRIR 2
Push-Up
4 × 10 · 60s restRIR 2
Pull-Up
3 × 6 · 90s restRIR 2
Broad Jump
4 × 5 · 75s rest
Mountain Climber
4 × 35s · 45s rest
Open Full Session
Agility & Mobility
Saturday · 30 min · 5 exercises
Agility Ladder Drills
4 × 30s · 45s rest
Jump Rope
1 × 600s
Broad Jump
4 × 5 · 60s rest
Hanging Knee Raise
4 × 10 · 60s restRIR 2
Hollow Hold
4 × 20s · 45s rest
Open Full Session
Program Overview

Why This Program Works

Philosophy

This program is built for someone who has never trained before and refuses to stay that way. Every phase asks for consistent effort across a real weekly split — core and conditioning, upper body, cardio, full body, and agility — rather than one intense session that burns a beginner out. Real progress here is measured in eight weeks of shown-up sessions, not in any single day.

Physique Goal

A leaner, more capable build from consistent full-body training — visible improvement from zero, not a specific physique target.

Performance Goal

Real foundational strength (pull-up progressions, squats, presses), genuine work capacity from regular conditioning, and the athletic base that everything harder gets built on top of later.

How Progression Works

Bodyweight strength movements use rep progression within a phase, then swap to a harder variant the next phase once reps stop being a real challenge — assisted pull-up becomes pull-up, push-up becomes feet-elevated push-up. Conditioning work (jump rope, sprint intervals, agility ladder) uses density progression: the same or slightly higher volume gets harder purely by cutting rest, never by adding random extra volume. Target RIR drops 3 to 2 across the two phases on effort-based strength work — this is a genuine beginner program, so it never pushes to RIR 1 the way the harder programs in this roster do. RIR is deliberately left off every jump, sprint interval, and steady-state conditioning piece. No tempo prescriptions in Phase 1 — tempo is only introduced once a lifter has enough base strength to control it meaningfully.

Training Philosophy

How Eren Yeager Trains

Eren's story starts with someone who has nothing and refuses to accept it. The real-world translation of that isn't literal Titan power — it's a genuine beginner program built around consistent effort, real conditioning, and full-body work capacity, so that eight weeks from now the person who started this program is measurably stronger and fitter than the one who began it, one honest session at a time.