re: OT Workout crew: Stronglifts 5x5

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Where it says deadlift 1x5

How do you determine workload? What about warm up lifts?

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your starting your first workout with a working set weight of 135 if you have no bumpers. If you have bumpers then you can start with 10s on each side. you add weight every workout until you fail to complete the prescribed number of reps. you add 10lbs per workout so if you started at 135 you would be at 255 in 12 weeks.

Of course you would have mutiple warm up sets before the working set. The working set should be a balls to the wall set.

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essentially rubber plates like used in crossfit and olympic lifting. a 10lb plate is the same size as a regular 45lbs plate or close to it. Cna also do technique plates.

It all about getting the bar off the ground to the correct heigth to do a proper deadlift.

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I like it because it is easy and I'm in and out of the gym in 30 minutes including warm-up and cool down stretches.

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How in the hell? I can see when you're first starting out but as my numbers went up, so did the length of my workouts.

It takes me at least an hour. Sometimes an hour and a half especially on dead lift days.

I started April 1st of this year after going through PT with a bum shoulder and years of being a sedentary fatass. I started with the bar and now have my numbers up there pretty good.

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This is the proper way to squat. Dont squat any other way. arse to the ground.

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Lol. No. You go to the position your body lets you while maintaining proper form. (Hopefully it's at least parallel)

Squatting 3x a week suckssss

I would do Ice Cream Fitness over SL (it's pretty similar with more accessory work, same linear progression model), but even then I got burned out after like 2 months because it really sucked going to the gym and spending 30 minutes squatting 3 times a week.

For sure. Mobility is so boring though.

Rubber Olympic plates baw

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What are bumpers?

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if you are not able to go arse to grass, work on mobility. eventually you should be close to being able to.

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arse to grass is for cross-fitters, if you are into that sort of thing

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This is damn good advice.

What are your thoughts on korte's 3x3?

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kortes 3x3 is a good program that is intended for the advanced lifter that wants to concentrate on powerlifting style training. So less than 1% of the posters on this board.

Its a good program its just overly complicated and requires you to understand where your weakness is on each lift, similarly to a true westside program.

in other words less than 5% of those that lift should even care about a program like that.

the ones I listed are geared more towards building a foundation and then strength + aesthetics which most people on here and lift in general just want to be stronger, be healthier and mostly look better naked.