DZLS 5x5 SF...

[DZLS]

I've completed week 1 of my 5x5 and am loving the new regimen...

Here is my chart for week 1...

Greens indicate easy completion, and yellows are for completion with a little more difficulty... hopefully there will be no reds in the future...

Looking forward to week 2, and tracking my progression...

i'm up 2-3 pounds of bodyweight this week as well, so my diet is on track, although last week i had far too many garbage things to eat... Fastnacht donuts are bad, very bad...

My starting stats were 210lbs...

5 rep maxes on the lifts (i was conservative) were...

Squat - 255
Bench - 220
Dead - 285
Row - 175
Push press - 140

 

[anotherbutters]

I like the chart. It's a good way of visualising how a workout went. I've been trying to figure out a good way of showing progession. I show the increase from last week's weights, but something like your chart combined with Blut Wump's "last week's weights" view are giving me ideas...

2-3 lbs in one week? You must be eating like a horse!

 

[ErikZ]

Great one Dzls. I also use a chart

Peace brow

 

[djeclipse]

I like the chart andthe colour code.

Can you post your starting stats like starting BW and your 5 rep maxes in all your lifts?

God luck with your journal.

 

[DZLS]

post edited with starting stats...

 

[DZLS]

Week 2 is complete and everything went great...

Here's is my chart for week 2...

 

[Introspective]

Good stuff here, i also like the chart idea. I notice you do pullups on workout b and dips on workout c, i used to do both pull ups and dips but madcow suggested if i want to do pull ups on the light day i should not do dips on the medium day.

 

[DZLS]

if it starts affecting my ability to complete lifts once i get past week 4, i will cut the dips or pullups... depends on what lifts are being affected...

 

[djeclipse]

Good stuff here, i also like the chart idea. I notice you do pullups on workout b and dips on workout c, i used to do both pull ups and dips but madcow suggested if i want to do pull ups on the light day i should not do dips on the medium day.

What was the reaoning behind this?

I've been doing 3 sets of chin-ups on day 2 and 3 sets of dips on day 3 and I don't think they've hurt me any.

 

[Introspective]

What was the reaoning behind this?

I've been doing 3 sets of chin-ups on day 2 and 3 sets of dips on day 3 and I don't think they've hurt me any.

I was wondering the same, it's just madcow said to drop the dips if i want 2 do chins/pullups in order to even it out. Ule have to ask madcow as to the reason why. He just said his reason for having it as it is is more than likely better than my reason for wanting 2 change it.

 

[Madcow2]

My reasoning was that this is generally more than enough for most people on these boards to make good progress as laid out. Tolerance varies with the individual and I don't want people getting into the habit of adding to workload without first establishing some experience by actually running the program and seeing how it works (this program being very different from what most have done before). If you wind up impacting your ability to perform the core lifts or recover adequately, that's no good at all - sort of like trading $500 for $10, dumb. Given that dips are superfluous to a basic layout, IMO and Starr's, with all the other pressing during the week and even triceps isolation work on Friday, logically drop the dips and add chins to Wednesday (both are bodyweight exercises so fairly comparable). T

his isn't to say dips aren't good or some people can't do more - I just don't want the average person adding before they have experience and absolutely know how they tolerate it. Think back to the trading $300 for $5 analogy, some people might well trade $300 and get $310 while others might trade and get $5 - possible large risk for small payoff is not good and adding stuff to these workouts sets a bad precedent that the morons who've never tried them will no doubt run with and add all kinds of garbage and wonder why they don't progress. So if doing chins is a make or break for them (and it is to some people), just swap the dips and it winds up being fairly equivalent.

 

[djeclipse]

Thanks for the explination.

 

[Introspective]

yea thanks

 

[DZLS]

i can see his point completely... and as i said, if i feel i am hurting my core lifts by doing the dips, i will drop them like a bad habit, but so far, there have not been any issues...

things could change once the workload starts to increase though...