So.. I'm doing your 5x5 plan and I think its great but, when doing 5x5 bench press for example, i dont really get exhausted after it, should i do more reps or is it supposed to be like that?

You aren't training to exhaustion - that's the beauty of 5x5. You are training for pure strength. Every week you are going to try to go up by 5 lbs on every set (of the 5x5 exercises) while still maintaining the 5 rep quota. Example, if you did 225 lbs for 5 reps as your 5th set, the next week you would do 230 lbs for 5 reps and so forth.


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I also meant to tell you, if you are able to do way more than the 5 reps of the top weight - you are not truly doing 85-90% of your max. You will need to find your 1 rep max again and go from there.

This post was edited by SKCRaynor on Dec 6 2011 11:25am

Since when did white rice, white bread, cereals, potatoes, or corn become a simple carb?

This post was edited by imboxxybrah on Dec 6 2011 11:40am

since he went to med school, bahahahaha.

whats the benefit of deadlifting to knees?

monday morning when i woke up I felt some pain in this area

what can it be? i felt it today also.. It's not that sharp or anything but the pain stays till about noon. Then it usually goes away. And when i wake up again it appears again. Can creatine or anything else cause kidney or some kind of other issues? Or maybe it's because of cold weather in? Cold wind draught or something like that?

Raynor while im following your 5x5 strength guide what should my diet be like?


Im 5'8 152 pounds 15 years old
Bench is 130
Squat is 155
DL is 160

so i see most people doing chest/tri's, back/bi's and others are doing chest/bi's, back/tri's

any reason for the difference? and which one would be more effective?

i mentioned this awhile ago but i had loss of flexibility in my middle, ring, and pinky fingers of my left hand due to a tendon injury (i had some loss of flexibility on my right hand's fingers too but i think they have healed)

they havent gotten better or worse and they only bother me after i wake up and gradually the flexibility (sometimes) comes back throughout the day....

my question is this..do you think i should buy some splints for my hand to wear when i am sleeping? i know the ends of the tendons have to be touching in order for it to heal so if you think splints would help.. would it be better to get a flat one or a gradually curved one and also any recommendations for splints?

Anything with a glycemic index of over 65 raises insulin levels high enough for PWO.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Glycemicindexandglycemicloadfor100foods.htm

Stop trolling. You are embarrassing yourself.





Your lack of knowledge speaks for itself.

This post was edited by SKCRaynor on Dec 6 2011 07:58pm