are there any 5x5 programs that involed 4-5 days a week

[musclesguys]

hey well i've seen some 5x5 programs but they were 3 days usually monday wednesday friday. I like to go to the gym often and my program now is a 5 day split. I heard the 5x5 program is effective but i want to come to the gym more often than 3 days.

 

[needtogetaas]

I have not seen any man. If some one find ones let me know.

 

[02gixxersix]

Needsize's 5x5 does. He basically does a normal volume split with such as:

Chest
Back
Off
Shoulders
Legs
Arms
Off

You pick one heavy compound movement and do 5x5 with the same weight moving up the next week if you get them all. Then you pick 2 more exercises and do 2 sets of 8-12 each IIRC. I gained a shit ton of strength and weight on this one a few years back. For abs you so 5x5 on a decline bench at the steepest angle you can get. You lower down with weight and stop where there is peak resistance and count to 5 then back up. Count to 5 at the top and then down again. At least this is how I remember it.

 

[musclesguys]

ty guys found his workout on google . I typed "needsize 5x5" and it was first one

 

[OneBreath]

It is important to understand that what makes the 5x5 work is not so much 5 sets by 5 reps, but the movements and frequency by which you are doing the movements combined with progression in load over time.

You can have a 5 day bodypart split that uses the 5 rep by 5 set scheme, but if you are only hitting those muscles 1 time per week the results will be far inferior to the 3 day full body 5x5.

This is a very difficult concept to accept. I personally would rather lift 7 days a week, however i've come to the conclusion that the optimal results for me as an intermediate lifter is the 3 day full body format.

 

[02gixxersix]

It is important to understand that what makes the 5x5 work is not so much 5 sets by 5 reps, but the movements and frequency by which you are doing the movements combined with progression in load over time.

You can have a 5 day bodypart split that uses the 5 rep by 5 set scheme, but if you are only hitting those muscles 1 time per week the results will be far inferior to the 3 day full body 5x5.

This is a very difficult concept to accept. I personally would rather lift 7 days a week, however i've come to the conclusion that the optimal results for me as an intermediate lifter is the 3 day full body format.

You're definitely right and Needsize's version is a volume routine so don't get it twisted, but it is much better than most of the volume routines guys do where they just show up and kind of wing it. There is tracked and required progression with this one. I like the intermediate 5x5 better myself as well.

 

[NJL52]

hey well i've seen some 5x5 programs but they were 3 days usually monday wednesday friday. I like to go to the gym often and my program now is a 5 day split. I heard the 5x5 program is effective but i want to come to the gym more often than 3 days.

A 5x5 is not a "type" of program. It is "a" program. There are no variants of the 5x5. There is THE 5x5. If you are doing "a 5x5" that isn't word for word the design of MadCow then you are doing some random bullshit that some hobbyist weight-trainee designed in his free time.

 

[fortunatesun]

5x5 starts out easy, but a few weeks in you'll find out why it's a 3day/week program. If you have the need for more work, there's hundreds of ways to improve your conditioning or General Physical Preparedness (GPP). Get yourself a sled for instance:

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