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As for the original poster, sayin I hijacked your thread! I've been doing basic training for a good few years now and 5x5 style setups for nearly 3 and I've no issues with my bi's & tri's.
5x5 question
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Hybridtheory2o
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When I used to do my 5x5 everything grew but obviously some areas more than others. That just depends on your body. As far as arms go mine exploded with doing a 5x5. I also do one muscle group a day though which I think is very typical so nothing special here. I find this helps me because I can stay very focused on one muscle group at a time and I can absolutley anhilate it properly. When I start trying to do splits by the time I get to my second muscle group im feeling like sorta sloppy and what not and I would start to train a little messy just to get through it. I enjoy going 5 times a week one muscle group per day.
Mon-5x5 with chest
Tues- 5x5 with back and abs but i dont do 5x5 with abs lol
Wed- Legs 5x5
Thurs-Shoulders 5x5
Fri- biceps and triceps 5x5
regular sessions- same as above but with 3 sets sometimes 4 on bigger muscle groups and rep range i use typically is 8-12
I do my 5x5 mass cycle for about 8 weeks. My body tends to recover fairly quickly and I noticed the most gains in my chest and upper back. I have a very thick upper back now. My best advice is since everyone is different and someones order and style might not help ur body like theirs so keep expirmenting till youfind out what makes your shit explode.
O yeh and my chest didn really start exploding till I started doing dumbell presses instead of barbell. I find that dumbells tend to target less of my shoulder and more of my chest and completley hammers on it very nice. I like to minimize that so on shoulder day I can rip them apart to their liking as well. But like I said this is what works for me and my body.
Mon-5x5 with chest
Tues- 5x5 with back and abs but i dont do 5x5 with abs lol
Wed- Legs 5x5
Thurs-Shoulders 5x5
Fri- biceps and triceps 5x5
regular sessions- same as above but with 3 sets sometimes 4 on bigger muscle groups and rep range i use typically is 8-12
I do my 5x5 mass cycle for about 8 weeks. My body tends to recover fairly quickly and I noticed the most gains in my chest and upper back. I have a very thick upper back now. My best advice is since everyone is different and someones order and style might not help ur body like theirs so keep expirmenting till youfind out what makes your shit explode.
O yeh and my chest didn really start exploding till I started doing dumbell presses instead of barbell. I find that dumbells tend to target less of my shoulder and more of my chest and completley hammers on it very nice. I like to minimize that so on shoulder day I can rip them apart to their liking as well. But like I said this is what works for me and my body.
Hybridtheory2o
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Oh as regards to dead lifts. I like to do them last because I dont need a tremendous amount of weight to make growth occur. Yes I still train heavy when I do my deads last but I train as heavy as I can with doing them last and I still use a considerable amount of weight.
blut wump
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Not to dismiss your posts as completely off-topic but here's the 5x5 he was referring to:
http://www.geocities.com/elitemadcow1/table_of_contents_thread.htm
BTW 5x5 works nicely for abs. Do a search on here for Needsize 5x5. It's a decline sit-up variant.
http://www.geocities.com/elitemadcow1/table_of_contents_thread.htm
BTW 5x5 works nicely for abs. Do a search on here for Needsize 5x5. It's a decline sit-up variant.
Hybridtheory2o
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Oh my bad dude lol. I missed the boat on the post it looked like. I am looking at your link now.
Hybridtheory2o
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Would my post where I missed the boat be legit though? I do this heavy heavy cycle in an attempt to induce new growth and what not. Even though its different I just wanna know if it would work like that because it did for me before.
blut wump
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The general concensus we seem to have here is that so long as you're aiming to make progress over time on your lifts by steadily adding weight to the bar at your chosen rep range then you'll make gains, provided that your chosen rep range is not so high as to be just endurance work nor so low as to be purely neural work. Most here will work primarily 4-6 sets of 4-6 reps on their main work sets.
Some lifts will warrant triples and occasionally people will work 8-10 reps for extended periods but it's all good so long as regular, quantifiable progress is the goal.
As you've probably already seen from the 5x5 on Madcow's site, it centers around working lifts multiple times per week rather than working specific muscle groups once per week. This is more in line with accepted strength training methods rather than the 'principles' that the bodybuilding community inherited from the 70s and 80s. Once per week training does work, as you know, but we've all found good progress from the multiple times per week method, rarely going to failure. What's more, general conditioning is higher and muscle soreness is a thing of the past. Very few who've tried the 5x5 have left it disappointed. There are several keeping training logs on here.
You can think of the 5x5 as a good method to get things moving again when the BB-style split stalls and you can't tolerate upping your dosages of aas or as simply a very good way to grow naturally. As a natural lifter, if you want to grow your muscles then you have to train for strength. The 5x5 is based on sound strength-gaining principles.
Some lifts will warrant triples and occasionally people will work 8-10 reps for extended periods but it's all good so long as regular, quantifiable progress is the goal.
As you've probably already seen from the 5x5 on Madcow's site, it centers around working lifts multiple times per week rather than working specific muscle groups once per week. This is more in line with accepted strength training methods rather than the 'principles' that the bodybuilding community inherited from the 70s and 80s. Once per week training does work, as you know, but we've all found good progress from the multiple times per week method, rarely going to failure. What's more, general conditioning is higher and muscle soreness is a thing of the past. Very few who've tried the 5x5 have left it disappointed. There are several keeping training logs on here.
You can think of the 5x5 as a good method to get things moving again when the BB-style split stalls and you can't tolerate upping your dosages of aas or as simply a very good way to grow naturally. As a natural lifter, if you want to grow your muscles then you have to train for strength. The 5x5 is based on sound strength-gaining principles.
BiggT
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I just want to add on to the posts on the 5x5's approach. I am coming from primarily a strength-training background.....As a kid I knew 'bodybuilding' as the mags I'd sometimes look at after I finished the wrestling ones when my mom was taking extra long at the super market, lol. I understand how people who have been fed "bodybuilding" stuff from the 70s/80s/90s/00s will be concerned about the lack of an "arm day" and the lack of direct hit pumping type exercises.
In strength training, you train lifts for performance.....basically squats, a standing press, a press on a bench, and some type of pull (oly lifts, a DL variant, some type of row, chins with various grips). Generally when working/"training" with 75-90% of 1rm you can design a set/rep scheme to progress with and get in enough total work to induce some nice hypertrophy to boot.
If arms are a concern....I PROMISE you, sufficient work for them are 4 sets of iso stuff once a week. Guy351.....just do this up already, the concerns you express are normal for everybody who is not used to sound strength training principals and who has only been spoon-fed Weider's or Jones/Mentzer garbage, you can really get a complex about not "working muscles" with exercises that cause that target muscle to be swollen with blood and "feel' worked......If you do it by the book according to MadCow's site the first time and use the spreadsheet to select weights, you're not going to be disappointed after 8 weeks or so.
Keep a log on here and give it a go, man.
In strength training, you train lifts for performance.....basically squats, a standing press, a press on a bench, and some type of pull (oly lifts, a DL variant, some type of row, chins with various grips). Generally when working/"training" with 75-90% of 1rm you can design a set/rep scheme to progress with and get in enough total work to induce some nice hypertrophy to boot.
If arms are a concern....I PROMISE you, sufficient work for them are 4 sets of iso stuff once a week. Guy351.....just do this up already, the concerns you express are normal for everybody who is not used to sound strength training principals and who has only been spoon-fed Weider's or Jones/Mentzer garbage, you can really get a complex about not "working muscles" with exercises that cause that target muscle to be swollen with blood and "feel' worked......If you do it by the book according to MadCow's site the first time and use the spreadsheet to select weights, you're not going to be disappointed after 8 weeks or so.
Keep a log on here and give it a go, man.
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