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sitarae

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I'm on my third month of 531 and still loving it. I like the slow but constant progress combined with a solid framework and the ability to ad-lib extra work.
 
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TheGreatMustachio

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Boom.

You doing 3 or 4 day?

My training will take a totally different turn on Monday like.

Keeping it real simple with mobility, 531 lift, accessory, accessory and out. Just hitting loads of conditioning after. the lifting. s long as I keep the kcals high and stick to strength based conditioning work I recon I'll still get stronger while becoming a bit of a machine in the later rounds at training.
 
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neechiewoman

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4 days. A mate made up a spreadsheet to do all the calculations and I'm working my way through it bit by bit.

I'm doing similar to you but with a fair bit more volume.
 
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ClownKIng001

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Any links to the 531 stuff?

Big grins for heavy padwork with significant vertical grappling. Drag the padman round and knee a few times, drag them down and mawashi geri to the head, sweep.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of that

Mitch
 
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kut77less

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Would anyone who knows like to start another thread in H&F comparing 531 with 5x5 or Starting Strength? It'd be interesting to have a pros and cons, suitability for beginners/intermediates/advanced lifters etc grouped in one place.

Mitch
 
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HanZ

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My vastus lateralis muscles surprised me lately...little me actually got some hypertrophy. Say, what? I NEVER hypertrophy...Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
 
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VeraGabriele

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No post-training cramps last night! I've been having wicked hamstring cramps a couple of hours after training recently. One left me hobbling round a restaurant, one leaping from my chair at a charity meeting and one, well let's just say it left Mrs Mitch rather disappointed...

So on the drive back from class last night I swigged down my homemade isotonic drink, which tasted foul but at least I had no cramps last night! If only Mrs Mitch had still been awake

Mitch
 
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NoWhereMan

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Yeah a lad on the web made me a spreadsheet.
Its a read only and still has his bodybuilding style accessory work on but it does the figures fine.

How have you set your week up? I'm thinking military dead rest bench squat rest rest.
 
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SamHlB

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Just a lightning quick answer - and this is a purely personal opinion. I've always regarded 5x5 as being a good solid beginners routine - several of the variants I've seen on it are good. 531, I'm coming round to the opinion that it's an excellent intermediate's routine.


Strictly speaking:

Tues: Squat. Thurs: Bench. Sat: Deadlift. Sun: Overhead Press

My main gym is at home and if I had no gym available to me at work this is exactly how my week would happen. However, my workplace has a pretty well equipped gym and I'm fortunate enough that a couple of my colleagues are serious lifters - one of them has competed and was recently enormously helpful in helping me improve my rubbish deadlift form. So I do a little shuffling - I move Squat to Monday lunchtime, deadlift to Friday lunchtime and just do the accessory work when Coma comes round on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

As far as yours goes, so long as you have squat and deadlift nicely spaced out and a reasonable gap between bench and overhead press (which you do) then you should be fine. The next consideration is usually fitting it all around your lifestyle!
 
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geneeengineer

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Haha I'm on study leave mate, what life?

I'm in the library most days soi just head to the gym when I'm no longer being productive with my revision.

I box on 2-3 of my rest days but my recovery is pretty good and I'm young so I'll be fine.

Think for deload week, instead of farting on with light weights i'll do a kettle bell workout 3x a week.
 
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Slexxy

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It depends on how much time you have to train, what your goals are, how well you recover and what other training you do. For example the powerlifters I train with lift 3 times a week, I can only lift twice and make gains because of my MA training

Ive done 5 x 5 (of which there are so many variations its not even funny) but found the volume too high with my other training as the weights got heavier, I like 5,3,1 but find the volume too low on the higher weights to really make progress

It also depends on how you follow the programme, doing 5,3,1 for example and switching the lifts about, messing around with the deload week, not following the proscribed method of using 90% to calculate you r max, etc is not doing the 5,3,1 method so you cant judge it unless you do it as written

If your goals are to get strong the best advice you can be given is find a gym where strong guys train and listen to their advise
 
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addsapp

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on the path to self-improvement . made a new video for the workout thread, and i've discovered that there appears to be parkour near me, so i'll look into starting it soon.
 
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