The Original 5x5 Program

[kenneth]

woh.. I'm far from an expert, but whatever the name was that made the last post on here really needs to do some research, and have a full understanding of the 5x5 before they comment. That was a really really bad post. If I was the person to do it, I'd delete that post. I mean, people read the 5x5, see all that quality, and the thread ends with THAT comment. terrible man, terrible. You should definately do some research and post again, correcting yourself.

[lovevixen]

Where have you guys been hideing????? 5X5 is so old and well known? I would highly recomend you guys read more and buy the older books that came out int he 1940m1950 and 1960's etc....... I guess I got luck I am a book worm and have books on Physical culture going back to the 1800's. You can and should also check out all the reprints of the old Strong men routine back when mail order was all the rage!

My first weight lifting program was from Joe Weider and it was came with 4-5 posters and a book written on pulb paper. It has sections on diet and hygine as well as exercise. The meat and patatoes of the workout program was 6 sets of 6 reps. You did compound movements first and then isoltationmovements. Even with out a squat rack or squat stands you where expected to squat. Back then when men where men you either cleaned the weight then pressed it to get into postion for squats or you levered the bar close to verticle witht he coloars on then bent side way to get under and then up into postion!

This is one reason so many of us older athletes thing many of todays atheletes are either spoiled or wimpy! They always have an excuse for not doing squats or deadlift or benching heavy or anything else you can think of!

Their are a host of good programs fromt he periods I mentioned that work great for mostly drug free athletes. I would never use 5X5 with someone on steroids it would be a waste of perfectly good steroids to do such a low volume routine and give yourself that much recovery time but for drug free athletes it is hard to beat!

Vince Gironda had his 8X8 program that was a killer too!

[bodyforum]

i know that this is a trusted program..

but do u think that a newbie like me would be able to go by it, n get some good results..

thanks..