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Week 1, Day 1

Currently deployed. Goodbye sweet gainz.

Squat
10x135 / 5x175 / 5x225 / 5x240 / 5x275

Bench
10x135 / 5x140 / 5x170 / 5x205 / 5x225

We did a **** ton of buddy drags and bear crawls too... usually combined with It Pays to Be a Winner. The worst is when we'd run by the stream and plt sgt would be like "Marines are amphibious right?...

OP, you need to GOMAD!

srsly, Gallon of Milk A DAy.

Follow this link. Lots of good basic foundational information. The two parts you should especially be interested in are the sections on...

I highly recommend Coach Rip's Starting Strength but since you will likely ignore this as being 'too easy and not enough exercises' then give a 5x5 a try. More variety but only weekly progression....

How did the movie end? The book was pretty legit.

Short answer: Yes. It is a different type of adaption and trying to do both may lead to your body achieving subpar gains in strength compared to if you did the program as written or lead to stalling...

Week 3, Day 1

No lifting partner today so no video. I tried to jump a bunch of weight on squats even though I was only programmed to do 290. Whatever, lesson learned.

Squat
10x145 / 5x185 /...

Week 2, Day 1

No video footage for yesterday's lift as due to my work schedule I had to lift at the crossfit gym at my work instead of my usual gym and I had no lifting partner. My lifts suffered...

Amphibious Boat raids. 2 MREs/day. No sleep.

I have a 5, 500 cal maintance.

Due to my poor performance at Week 5 after several weeks in the field away from the gym, I am resetting my cycle of Bill Starr's 5x5, as well as adding an explosive day on Saturday consisting of a...

I just returned from 9 days in the field where I operated at a -3500 Kcal deficit and slept only two or three nights and even then only for up to 6 hours maximum. Thanks Uncle Sam. As a result I...

I think you are missing the entire point of 5x5s. You practically turned a solid strength training program into a bodybuilding split. If you want to bodybuild then thats fine, but there are far...

Don't do this. Lol. Having a light and heavy bicep day doesn't even make sense. What, 20 lbs curls one day and 45 lbs the next?

Focus on the basics--big, multi-joint compound lifts along with...

Holy ****, your squat ballooned since I was last here. Nice gains devil

2400 Calories/day. That there cut season, huh?

Pretty nice numbers for straight across sets on squats, as expected.

Damn its been 7 months since I updated this thing. I am doing another training cycle of Bill Starr's 5x5... finishing week 4 tonight. I'll try to update this tonight.

This is true and I wholly agree. However, the legs should not get sore from this. Thats like saying the bench press should make your legs and back sore aince you use those to stabilize.

But...

Your legs shouldn't hurt from overheads, otherwisw you are doing a jerk or a push press...

Thanks. Ill look into that when I get off work.

Thanks.

Yeah, I was just wondering what the actual programming basis was. I am not familiar with periodization routines.

Yes I am, however I am not uswd to periodization rou