Recent content by lschmidt

About two months ago I started lifting weights randomly 3 or 4 times per week. I weighed 135 and my 1RM bench was about 130. After about three weeks of this bad training, I started a 5x5 program. Now, two months later, here are my stats. So my current stats are now: Height: 5' 10" Weight: 151...

On bench and row is it ok to do heavy on both monday and friday, or is this too much work for the muscle groups? It says to go light or something on the friday, but monday is pyramid sets and friday is with the same weight all 5 sets so it's hard to guage what is light as you have different...

Wooldog, I am not starting supplements till week 3 because I had to wait for a paycheck from work to order them hah. Also, I started out lower than my maxes for all the lifts, so this way I'll start creatine at the same time I am trying to raise my lifts. Anyone have suggestions on how/when...

Wednesday 10/26 - Body Weight 145.5 (8 gain) DB Military 5x5 (35) Squats 5x5 (105) - still feeling groin pain on right leg, limiting my weight Pullups 5x5 (BW+10) Deadlift 5x5 (95) - ehh this is weak Calves 3x8 Should my feet be perfectly straight with squats? I am still feeling that groin...

Monday 10/24 - Body Weight 145 lbs (7.5 gain) Bench 5x5 (115, 125, 130, 135, 140) Squat 5x5 (145, 135, 125, 115, 105) Bent DB Row 5x5 (40, 50, 55, 60, 65) DB Shrugs 3x8 (55) I had to keep decreasing squat weight because I am getting a pain on the inside of my upper leg near my groin. Only on...

And I figured I'll go ahead and post today (Friday's) workout: Friday Bench 5x5 (120 lbs) Squat 5x5 (105, 115, 125, 135, 145) Row 5x5 (45 lbs) DB Curls (30 lbs) Tri ext on lat machine (#5 - no weight written on it) Everything felt really easy today so monday everything will be going up 10 lbs.

I have done lots of lifting before, while I was a competitive swimmer. I'm not a total newb, I just haven't lifted for awhile. And if I keep making gains on 5x5 past week 4, I won't switch it to 3x3 I'll keep going with the same volume.

This is almost single factor. The only difference is switch to the 3x3 ranges in weeks 5-8, then switching back to higher volume. I want to do this to first, switch things up. Second, provide a 'shock' or change to the muscles. In the past 3-4 weeks I've been working out with only flat bench...

Ok so I just did Monday and Wednesday of my first week of 5x5. I felt that I used too much weight for squats on monday 5x5, so on Wednesday I only did 3x5 since I was still sore from Monday. Is this a big deal? Basically I am just going to lower my weight a little bit for squats. For the...

I have never used any supplements before, so I will be starting my first 'stack'. I will be using: Omega Sports Cre Ethyl Thunder (CEE caps) Optimum Nutrition 100 Whey Protein I will be taking those two for sure, but have heard lots about: nitric oxide boosters (basically lots of arginine?)...

I have been training for awhile, but haven't done 5x5. I am going to start madcows version of the dual factor 5x5. Here are my questions though: For the volume phase, it consists of 5x5 sets and 1x5 sets where 5x5 is with a certain weight for all of the sets, and 1x5 means pyramid to the target...