5 X 5 Training Method

[Lord_Suston]

Hellboy and all other who have question on secondary lifts, if you can get both sets for 10 reps with good form then bump up the weight a small increment.

When I did this for incline I would go up 5lbs one week and my accessories usually went up 5lbs as well, the key is to be humble and start with a weight that easily used.

BTW Needsize thanks for the ab work out I super setted it with revese hyper (which I did the same way), I am hurting

 

[Griz1]

awesome, spatts, I didnt see that.
Big ups to spatts and the others who helped bring this stuff back from the dead

Amen!!

Spatts Rocks!!

A heavilly referenced/read thread that's for certain!

 

[bifteck]

thanks for getting this back up!! i recommended two of my friends look at it because it worked so well for me

 

[dzuljas]

hmm interesting. This is the routine I have been doing for the past 2 years.

 

[Arnold'sApprentice]

the thread used to have many,many more q + a than is now archived

such a shame

 

[MrOlympia2004]

Not bad for amatures.

 

[EL GAUCHO]

Not bad for amateurs neither.

 

[lavi]

Not bad for amateurs neither.

Anyway, to reiterate hellboy's question, "Do you increase weight each week on the exercises that are 2x8 also? Or just on the 5x5 ones?"

 

[EL GAUCHO]

Yeah, you increase the weight on both the 5X5's and 2x8-10.
The key is to keep within the 8-10 reps range.

 

[2horns]

when you start out out at say 195 for your 5x5 are you doing 195 for five sets...and the following week do 200 for 5 sets?...or is each one of your five sets going up 5lbs each?...example:

195,200,205,210,215....or
195,195,195,195,195...then next week 200 for five sets?