My 5x5 progress

[LiftHeavy123]

I'm in my 8th week of my 5x5. I've gained about 17.5 LBS and have added 30LBS to my Squat and Bench maxes. I broke 300lbs on my deadlifts too. My short term goals (as silly as they sound) was to be able to bench 4 45lbs plates and deadlift 300 LBS and I did it. I'm really happy. The only problem I'm facing is that my stomach has a little jiggle to it. I just started running again. I run about 20 mins everyday or so when I'm not lifting. I'm 6'1 208-09 16-17% bf. Will this cardio kill my gains or help me make more gains? Should I stop cardio again?

 

[swanky11]

I'm in my 8th week of my 5x5. I've gained about 17.5 LBS and have added 30LBS to my Squat and Bench maxes. I broke 300lbs on my deadlifts too. My short term goals (as silly as they sound) was to be able to bench 4 45lbs plates and deadlift 300 LBS and I did it. I'm really happy. The only problem I'm facing is that my stomach has a little jiggle to it. I just started running again. I run about 20 mins everyday or so when I'm not lifting. I'm 6'1 208-09 16-17% bf. Will this cardio kill my gains or help me make more gains? Should I stop cardio again?

im not sure, but i want to subscribe to this cause im wondering the same thing

 

[Guinness5.0]

I doubt cardio would help gains. It may not hurt them much though. I would take it easy at first and see what happens. I'm not so experienced when it comes to losing weight effectively, but common sense tells me that it's tough to make sinigicant improvements on two smewhat conflicting goals.

Try to decide exactly what you're looking to accomplish and think about the big picture. What's more important to you right now -- cutting down or continuing to gain size/strength? Depending on what mattters to YOU, you may wish to continue as you have been for a bit and wait for a stall, or you may wish to focus on leaning out and perhaps organize your training to reflect that goal.

You could try cutting cals gradually and see if o can keep progressing. That would be the most efficient approach IMO, but you could be too far along in your progress to make big gains without eating a lot.

It boils down to trial and error. What really sucks it that what worked before and what works today seldom correlate perfectly.