SL5x5 workout.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:40 am
So in exercise land, it's always been kinda tough for me to put on muscle. My genetics leave me prone to being what is scientifically known as "a lanky motherfucker."
It's gotten better with YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS of semi-consistent weight training, but really the weight training I've done has only taken me as far as not feeling like I'm gonna hurt myself while weight training.
The other day, I was searching around to verify that I was giving my [FUCKING SUPER AMAZINGLY BADASS] girlfriend accurate info about proper dead lift grips, and I stumbled onto this website called stronglifts.com. As with most muscle building websites, there is a fair (large) amount of insecure meat-head bullshit, but what grabbed me about the deal was the history, intensity, and simplicity of the workout program they were touting.
Basically, it's what Reg Park and Arnold Schwarzenegger used back in the day, only I'm doing the more beginner's oriented version that's gonna go like this:
5x5 Workout A 5x5 Workout B
Squat 5x5 Squat 5x5
Bench Press 5x5 Overhead Press 5x5
Barbell Rows 5x5 Deadlift 1x5
Five sets, five reps each. Workout every other day, alternate between workouts A and B, and add five pounds to each lift every day you do it.
Gonna do this until June or July and see what happens. If I get bored or feel like working harder, I'll pick another one of the old school, classic compound lifts and throw it in there as well. Basically, if it is something that uses a ton of different muscles, and makes me feel like I've just been hit by a truck at the end of a set, I'll think about adding it.
It'll be an experiment of sorts...
SCIENCE!
Because really, all in all, I doubt I'm ever gonna get huge in any way, but if I do get anywhere close, I'd much rather look like an old school strongman from the sixties than a juiced out gym bunny.
Even body builders back then, while ginormous, still looked like human beings, and kinda badass ones at that. Nowadays I see 'em and I'm like "Whoa damn, you worked that hard to look that weird?"
It's gotten better with YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS of semi-consistent weight training, but really the weight training I've done has only taken me as far as not feeling like I'm gonna hurt myself while weight training.
The other day, I was searching around to verify that I was giving my [FUCKING SUPER AMAZINGLY BADASS] girlfriend accurate info about proper dead lift grips, and I stumbled onto this website called stronglifts.com. As with most muscle building websites, there is a fair (large) amount of insecure meat-head bullshit, but what grabbed me about the deal was the history, intensity, and simplicity of the workout program they were touting.
Basically, it's what Reg Park and Arnold Schwarzenegger used back in the day, only I'm doing the more beginner's oriented version that's gonna go like this:
5x5 Workout A 5x5 Workout B
Squat 5x5 Squat 5x5
Bench Press 5x5 Overhead Press 5x5
Barbell Rows 5x5 Deadlift 1x5
Five sets, five reps each. Workout every other day, alternate between workouts A and B, and add five pounds to each lift every day you do it.
Gonna do this until June or July and see what happens. If I get bored or feel like working harder, I'll pick another one of the old school, classic compound lifts and throw it in there as well. Basically, if it is something that uses a ton of different muscles, and makes me feel like I've just been hit by a truck at the end of a set, I'll think about adding it.
It'll be an experiment of sorts...
SCIENCE!
Because really, all in all, I doubt I'm ever gonna get huge in any way, but if I do get anywhere close, I'd much rather look like an old school strongman from the sixties than a juiced out gym bunny.
Even body builders back then, while ginormous, still looked like human beings, and kinda badass ones at that. Nowadays I see 'em and I'm like "Whoa damn, you worked that hard to look that weird?"
