I have been doing the rippetoe program for awhile and wanted to switch and start doing madcow's 5x5... but wondered instead of doing
Squat, bench, and row on monday and friday
and squat military and deadlifts only wednesday
if i could alternate days like done on rippetoes program (week 1: workout A,B,A... week 2: workout B,A,B) to prevent losing the progress i have made on my military press
If you could do something like that and get away with it, you probably aren't at a point where you necessarily need a program like the single factor 5x5. The reason the 5x5 is set up so that you are setting PRs weekly is because it assumes you are no longer able to set them from workout to workout, or every few days as you would on Rippetoe's Starting Strength program. If you're still able to make progress this way, you might want to read the Starting Strength sticky at the top for some ideas of how you might change things around to do what you are suggesting, but also to keep in spirit with the principles of the SS program.
[QUOTE=mjw8204;32059241]If you could do something like that and get away with it, you probably aren't at a point where you necessarily need a program like the single factor 5x5. The reason the 5x5 is set up so that you are setting PRs weekly is because it assumes you are no longer able to set them from workout to workout, or every few days as you would on Rippetoe's Starting Strength program. If you're still able to make progress this way, you might want to read the Starting Strength sticky at the top for some ideas of how you might change things around to do what you are suggesting, but also to keep in spirit with the principles of the SS program.[/QUOTE]
agreed.