Newbie on 5x5

You have all giving me things to learn and look into more carefully, thank you all for your advice.
Im gonna stick with this program and substitute bent over rows for cleans and deads for high pulls, until hopefully i get my starting strength book, Also i was reading over young squaters journal and saw that riptoe told him to drink a gallon of milk a day, thats 8 pints right ? im gonna start doing this on monday and also try and get 4000 calories a day.
would this turn me into a big fatty or just help make me bigger and more muscular ?

Also did i read this right that doing core work is ok whilst on 5x5, like some beach work on saturdays maybe?

Introspective said:

would this turn me into a big fatty or just help make me bigger and more muscular ?

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It all depends on our requirements. Try it and if you turn into a tub of goo then cut back.

Also did i read this right that doing core work is ok whilst on 5x5, like some beach work on saturdays maybe?

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Yeah it's fine. Jsut don't get carreid away. Couple sets per worout

Thanks guinness
Also with this 5x5 program it says only do 4x5 on wednesdays and fridays, but i have just been doing 5x5 on all workout days on all exersises and always finish off on things i struggle to lift even on the light day because i feel 4x5 isnt enough,
is there a solid reason why i should have a light and medium day or is it ok if i do 5x5 on everything on all days, or am i doing more harm than good by sticking to 5x5 on everything, can anyone clear this up?
cheers

Form what I gather about the 5x5 program, the whole goal of the program is to make your PR's on Monday, everything else is to help you reach those PR goals. If you went heavy every workout I think the muscle would be to tired to make those consistent PR's on the monday.

So the wed light day is in there to still get the muscles working but not to overtrain them. The Friday is there to get the muscles used to lifting your new PR weight 3x, so it’s ready to do it 5 x on Monday.

Thanks for clearing that up eclipse, i think ille start doing it this way from now on.
Also how much time out do you 5x5 people take between lifts ? example with squats i usually do the first 5 then wait 45 seconds then do my next 5 ect.

Im currently doing research about what i should be eating, im working my way up to drinking a gallon of whole milk a day.
As soon as i get my dailey food routine going i think ille start a journal.
I made a quick web site for free at http://www.freewebs.com/introspective2006/
It's real good and simple to make your own free site very usefull if anyone is in need of something like this. I used it to store my workout plan and weights pyramid.

Peace

Im getting a treadmill soon speed of it is 0-10 mph thats 0-16 kph can anyone tell me how fast 8-10 mph 12-16 kph is ? for example is that like fast walking pace, slow joggin pace or medium joggin pace ?

6 mph is a very brisk walking pace. 4 mph is a typical reasonably fast walking pace. Go walk a mile and see how long it takes you.

A four-minute mile is 15 mph.

Thanks, aslong as i can get at least a steady joggin pace ille be happy.

Can anyone tell me what weighted hypers are ? because im not sure if im doing them right or if im doing a totally different exercise.