Phil wrote: Your website, and your blog does a lot for me, highly educational and motivational both. I do have a question actually: What are your thoughts comparing weighted chins VS the barbell rows? Once I started hanging weights from my waist to do chinups it seemed like I started making some solid gains in the upper [...]
Matthew wrote: Thanks for the awesome 5×5 report. I’ve been reading your blog since around Feb of 2010, and in March I started the StrongLifts 5×5 program. I’ve attached a pic from the day I decided to lose weight (July 14, 2009) vs last week. I’m currently at 265lbs, 6’1”, and 37 years old. I [...]
NOTE by Mehdi. This post was written by StrongLifts Member Greg Prince (40, Florida) who Squats 625lbs, Benches 385lbs, DeadLifts 615lbs and Presses 275lbs. ### We hear excuses for having certain strength limits all the time. My arms are short, my legs are too long, my arms are too long, my nose is too big and gets [...]
I’ve been doing Squats for 12 years and so far Squat 400lb raw at 170lb (I’m 5’8″, weighed 120lb when I started). No world records here, but for a guy with crazy long legs, skinny 6.7″ wrists and thus not born to be big or strong, I’ve come a long way now that I Squat almost [...]
Lance asked… Mehdi, my girlfriend has seen my results with StrongLifts 5×5 and is curious how your program would apply to women. Have you trained women or heard success stories from other SL Members? She had reconstructive knee surgery last year and I really want to get her to squat so she can strengthen up [...]
Here are this week’s facebook updates. If you don’t belong to the StrongLifts Facebook Fan page yet, I urge you to join by clicking here to gain access to exclusive content not on this blog and you can ask questions and get advice from other SL Fans. Here are just some of the things you missed this week… [...]
Group 1 – guys who tell everyone they do not have time to go to the gym and train. They’re too busy, they work too much, they got a family to take care of. Group 2 – they just don’t have it in them. They have bad genetics: a skinny build like me, short torso [...]
