young_squatters Single Factor 5x5 Journal

[Anthrax Invasion]

Thanks, I really wanna hear what he thinks about that kinda stuff in more detail. I get his training approaches, and I follow those more or less, but his diet ideas seem a bit skewed.

What's his e-mail?

 

[anotherbutters]

Don't post his email. Afford the guy a little bit of privacy or everyone will be emailing him! Send it to AI in a PM instead.

The gallon of milk a day is probably the easiest thing to get someone who is starting out to follow, without having to worry about preparing meals and working out the details of what we might consider a typical bodybuilder diet. I expect that along with four big meals per day would have been his advice. The milk gives you a big boost in calories and plenty of protein without much regard for the macros.

You will do well to listen to what Mark has to say. You're in a priviledged position if he's giving you one-to-one advice.

 

[anotherbutters]

young_squatter, I forgot to ask, how much do you weigh, how tall are you and how old are you?

 

[RipStone]

\Regarding the diet advice, the relevant thing to keep in mind is that he's a strength coach, not a bodybuilder. That statement isn't intended to imply any value judgment; obviously, there's a ton of overlap in the types of methods that are effective (of which many in the latter group are almost wholly ignorant), but, equally obviously, there's a different set of emphases. Bodybuilding has, in essence, the aim of maximizing muscle mass and minimizing bodyfat. For strength training, it's gaining as much functional strength as possible for athletics. The combination of diet and training that guys like Rip advocate will maximize this variable; conditioning drills and practice before and during the sports season then naturally takes care of a lot of the fat gained. You're quite right that you'll gain more fat with the diet he gave you than with a mildly hypercaloric clean diet. Ultimately, it's just a personal decision based on your short- and long-term strength and aesthetic goals.

^^^He hit the nail on the head as far as Ripptoe's diet advice.

You defintley have to keep in mind that Ripptoe is used to dealing with people that are soley concerned about strength/muscle gains. While are friend YS is concerned with strength/muscle gains, he would still like to achieve his goals of an asethicly pleasing physique. IMO YS can do this still without drinking a the whole milk and just eating a clean diet at a huge calorie surplus.

 

[young_squatter]

^^^He hit the nail on the head as far as Ripptoe's diet advice.

You defintley have to keep in mind that Ripptoe is used to dealing with people that are soley concerned about strength/muscle gains. While are friend YS is concerned with strength/muscle gains, he would still like to achieve his goals of an asethicly pleasing physique. IMO YS can do this still without drinking a the whole milk and just eating a clean diet at a huge calorie surplus.

Yeah Thanks ripstone, I just got done talking to rippetoe and he told me to email him about the diet so I did now im waiting for a response.

Another butters- I didnt plan on giving out his email because if I did the guy would be getting messages left and right.

Also im 6 foot, 160lbs, 18 years old.

Ill be starting this routine today, but without drinking all that milk, i will aim for 1-1.5 lbs a week of gain on bodyweight.

 

[Anthrax Invasion]

How'd you even get his e-mail to contact him in the first place? It's awesome you're getting advice directly from him. I only asked you to post it up, 'cause I figured it was just from some forum somewhere.

The milk thing will work. Just don't use whole. Use 2% milk and throw in ANPB to make up for the loss of calories in 2% as opposed to whole. Much better tasting, and a better source of fat. A gallon of whole milk is about 40 grams of saturated fats. That's no good.

His routine recommends two workouts...when are they done? Monday - Wednesday - Friday, rotated like a DC routine?

 

[young_squatter]

His routine recommends two workouts...when are they done? Monday - Wednesday - Friday, rotated like a DC routine?

Yep, also i rather eat my calories then drink them, im going to call him next week and ask him about a different diet

 

[young_squatter]

Wed 10/26/05

Started mark rippetoes routine

Squats
195x5
195x5
195x5

Military Press
75x5
75x5
75x5....PR

Chins
BWx4
BWx3
BWx3

Weighted Hyperextensions
85x5
85x5
85x5.....PR

Duratio:45 minutes

Overall good workout, For some reason the top of my leg was killing me on the squats, it felt like it was going to tear. But I worked through it. Also I just found out today on squats when I go past parallel that my knees go across my toes, Is this bad? Will it effect my gains at all? I decreased the weight to work on form but for some reason no matter what I do I can barlley make parallel without knees going across toes? Is this a problem or is it ok?

 

[RipStone]

Wed 10/26/05

Started mark rippetoes routine

Squats
195x5
195x5
195x5

Military Press
75x5
75x5
75x5....PR

Chins
BWx4
BWx3
BWx3

Weighted Hyperextensions
85x5
85x5
85x5.....PR

Duratio:45 minutes

Overall good workout, For some reason the top of my leg was killing me on the squats, it felt like it was going to tear. But I worked through it. Also I just found out today on squats when I go past parallel that my knees go across my toes, Is this bad? Will it effect my gains at all? I decreased the weight to work on form but for some reason no matter what I do I can barlley make parallel without knees going across toes? Is this a problem or is it ok?

Are thoe just work sets that you posted or are you doing a few warm up sets like we talked about on AIM? For example...

squats: (warmups) 95x5, 135x5, 165x3 (worksets) 195x5, 195x5, 195x5

Also, did Mark Ripptoe suggest what percent of your 1 RM you should be working with on your work sets?

About knees going past your toes, I have always heard that is not a good thing to do if you only go to parallel, but if you go past parallel I believe it's ok....not 100% sure on this so someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

[young_squatter]

Are thoe just work sets that you posted or are you doing a few warm up sets like we talked about on AIM? For example...

squats: (warmups) 95x5, 135x5, 165x3 (worksets) 195x5, 195x5, 195x5

Also, did Mark Ripptoe suggest what percent of your 1 RM you should be working with on your work sets?

About knees going past your toes, I have always heard that is not a good thing to do if you only go to parallel, but if you go past parallel I believe it's ok....not 100% sure on this so someone correct me if I am wrong.

Yeah ripstone I did those warm up exactly like that, just was to lazy to post them, LOL.
For squats I can do parallel without knees going past toes, but past parallel they go past, but I have made good gains this way so I am guessing its fine.