Article on 5x5

[Doo]

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/traini ... ogram.html.

[bigwhat62]

nice find doo. thanks for sharing. seems a lot of the questions people have commented on could use a little redirection to stronglifts.com.

[Doo]

I like the idea of dropping a set when you get 5/5/5/5/4 a couple of workouts in a row and then increasing weight until you get 5/5/5/4 for a couple of workouts and then dropping another set. You're deloading but not by taking weight off the bar but rather your total volume.

[bigwhat62]

I like the idea of dropping a set when you get 5/5/5/5/4 a couple of workouts in a row and then increasing weight until you get 5/5/5/4 for a couple of workouts and then dropping another set. You're deloading but not by taking weight off the bar but rather your total volume.

have you thought about giving the 5/3/1 program a shot? it is a combination of sets of 5, 3 and 1. i like it so far.

[Mouse]

Going to give the 5/3/1 a try out after my holiday and week away with work.
I've got 5 weeks to give it a try before possibly being away again - the program seems to fit 5 weeks nicely.
Then when i've a free run of 8 straight weeks I want to try out Korte's 3x3.

[Doo]

Currently I'm doing Texas Method.

Was doing for this first 4 weeks:

• M - Squat 5x5 / Bench 5x5 / Rows 5x5
• W - Front Squat 3x3 / Seated Press 3x3 / Deadlift 1x5
• F - Squat 1x5 / Bench 1x5 / Rows 1x5

Now doing:

• M - Squat 5x5 / Bench 5x5 / Rows 5x5
• W - Squat 2x5 / Seated Press 3x3 / Deadlift 1x5
• F - Speed Squat 10x2 / Speed Bench 8x3 / Speed Rows 8x3 (all with bands)

I don't like Front Squats and dropped them for now. With regards to the speed work with bands, I have heard that you can get pretty sore using bands but I did pretty good. I need to work on the initial part of the lift (where the bands would be applying less stress) because they weren't that difficult to lock out. Seems like I was able to get better results on the following high volume / high intensity M.