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OscarHollywood
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Hi, I'm doing billstarrs 5x5
Anyone do this?
Anyone do this?
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Anyone doing Billstarr?
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I always thought that it's a misconception that Bill Starr's training idea's is the 5x5. I'd say it's more the whole body routine done 3 times per week based on the Heavy, Light, Medium principle.
And Bill always advocated working toward a final 5th top end set rather then 5 sets of 5 with the same weight. Although I've seen him use rep schemes involving 8's, 5's, triples, double's and singles. Also 3-5 or more sets of 3.
A typical routine I've seen him write is like this :
Heavy Day
Squat
Power Clean
Clean High Pull
Bench Press
Light Day
Squat
Good Morning
Press
Medium Day
Squat
Shrug
Incline Press
And Bill always advocated working toward a final 5th top end set rather then 5 sets of 5 with the same weight. Although I've seen him use rep schemes involving 8's, 5's, triples, double's and singles. Also 3-5 or more sets of 3.
A typical routine I've seen him write is like this :
Heavy Day
Squat
Power Clean
Clean High Pull
Bench Press
Light Day
Squat
Good Morning
Press
Medium Day
Squat
Shrug
Incline Press
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JDizzle
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Yeah your right, it was pretty much 1x5 with ramping weight 5 rep 'warmups'
Which I think is one of the reasons why people stall quickly and hard on Stronglifts once they start getting the weight up. Its pretty hard to deadlift after your smashed from same weight across 5x5 max effort squats lol. Been there done that.