This one is by StrongLifts Member Syriuz aka Frederico who is from Portugal (awesome country, I had amazing times in Lagos and Lisbon during the Summer of 2009). Frederico gained 20kg in a year, from 51kg to 71kg. Quote… I’m 20 years old, 1,70m and i’ve been skinny all my life, my father and brothers are [...]
NOTE by Mehdi. This post was written by StrongLifts Member Harrison aka “Maslow” (24y, USA – page 69 inside the 5×5 report) who has so far gained 32lbs and increased his Deadlift from 130lbs to 380lbs in less than 2 years. ### I might as well call this “how I got bigger and stronger.” I started [...]
I’m only sharing one strategy: eat more protein. Not only will this blunt hunger and prevent muscle loss, 20-30% calories from protein is lost in processing (vs. 5-6% with carbs, 2-3% with fats). So if you boost your protein intake from 50 to 200g/day you’d burn up to 5400kcal extra per month. That’s at least [...]
Goran asks… Since it’s currently impossible to register to forum I decided to send you a mail, I hope you’re checking your inbox and reading mails. My name is Goran, I’m 20 years old, 74kg bw. So the questions is: when I do squats, and I do them really rock bottom, well below parallel, there is [...]
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… [...]
NOTE by Mehdi. This post was written by StrongLifts Member James “atypical1” Grant (42y, USA) who Deadlifts +500lbs, Squats +400lbs and Presses +225lbs. ### Many guys have ADD when it comes to training programs. I read this a lot and it’s somewhat disturbing because what you’re saying is that you know more than the person who [...]
StrongLifts Member Asif (22, Sheffield UK) is on page 100 of the 5×5 report. His success story: Asif got sick of being fat, lost 45lb before finding StrongLifts 5×5, then started to work on strength and boosted his Squat from 187lb to 418lb RAW (at only 158lb) in 14 months. Check his amazing fat loss [...]
