After Madcow's 5X5??

[big perm]

I'm coming up on the end of my first run of Madcow's version of the 5X5, with the alternate deload/intensity phase. I've gotten great results thus far, but in planning what to do after I've come up with a question.

Would it be more beneficial to:

(A) run another 9 weeks of the Madcow 5X5 program (maybe this time doing the 3X3 and 1X3, instead of the alternate deload/intensity)

(B) start a HST run, or

(C) does it not matter which one I do?

Ultimately, I think whichever one I do first I'll do the other after that one....but I want your opinion if one would be better to run after my first go of the 5X5.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Guinness5.0]

I'd try it again w/ the intensity phase at the end particularly if you like to lift heavy. I LOVED pulling heavy triples every week, and I found that I grew the most during that phase (my cals were higher then too). Plus you'l likely set teh weights better and have a better run anyway- my current training is a variation of the 5x5 and setting my weights better seems to be paying off quite nicely.

 

[JL_204]

Yeah, if you did the 5x5 once already why not do it again with better wieght selection. My first 5x5 run my wieght selection was shit. After that try HST. I love them both.

BTW nice location guinness. LOL.

 

[super_rice]

Do 5x5 a couple of times, then when you are ready, Korte's 3x3

 

[big perm]

Thanks for the responses....k to ya all.

 

[view]

HST is quite a bit different than madcows 5x5. some things are still there of course. HST is more about very frequent submaximal lifting, with the big load coming in the last 2-4 weeks of the program, whereas madcows has the big load in weeks 3-4 and 9ish depending. both programs utilize proggressive overload and deconditioning, so either way, you can't really go wrong.