Mad Cow 5x5 Assistance Exercises

[SerusMournstar]

I've been doing the Texas Method program for 4 months and have had good results. I am starting to plateau on everything and have decided to give Mad Cow's 5x5 a shot. My question is how important are the assistance exercises in the program. My gym does not have the hyper extension bench. I would also like to incorporate chins somewhere into the program and am thinking of replacing the weighted sit ups with these. I'd appreciate any thoughts on this from those who have used the program with success. Thanks.

[FiNePoWder277]

I've been doing the Texas Method program for 4 months and have had good results. I am starting to plateau on everything and have decided to give Mad Cow's 5x5 a shot. My question is how important are the assistance exercises in the program. My gym does not have the hyper extension bench. I would also like to incorporate chins somewhere into the program and am thinking of replacing the weighted sit ups with these. I'd appreciate any thoughts on this from those who have used the program with success. Thanks.

I am doing that program right now, i really don't think they are to important i probly still do situps and it says you can do chin ups on wednesday, but really the focus is on the major lifts so don't worry to much about the assited exercises.

[rancid_theclash]

maybe find a way to do ghetto glute ham raises.

[Calcaneous]

chins/pulls up should be used on the middle day (2nd work day of the week) in the same fashion of a 5x5 set-up.

week 1: bwx5x5
week 2: bw+additional weight for 5x5
week 3: bw+additional weight+more weight for 5x5
week 4: and so on

dont increase the weight unless you hit 5 sets of 5.

[Koaia]

Assistance exercises are not very important on the program.