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Posted at March 29, 2015, 4:20 pm:

Hello. I've been lurking on these boards for about 3 months now and have learned a lot about lifting from reading other peoples' journals so I decided I would go ahead and do one of my own for the 5X5 I am about to start.

A little background on myself... I started working out again in May after a 1 yr layoff during which I put on about 40 lbs and got into pretty bad shape. I used to almost exclusively do running and calisthenics so that's what I started doing to get myself back in shape. About 6 weeks into my program, I decided to gradually add a weight training routine. Basically, this was a 5-day split that started out with light weights & high reps (10-12) for the first few weeks and progressed to using heavier weights & medium reps (8-10). The program worked well for it's intended purpose. I cut from 210 down to 180 and aside from not being able to lift very heavy I'm in decent overall shape.

Last week was my 15th straight week of working out and I figured I'd take this week easy and use it to change my program to something centered on heavy lifting instead of cardio and calisthenics. After reading this board, I've decided to start the 5X5 next week and use this week to recover from my old program and prepare for the new one.

Original of the message was taken from http://forum.bodybuilding.com/

Replies:

Looking forawrd to see your progress so your starting next week?

The program that I'm basing this off of can be found at http://www.

Thanks for the response.

it has worked wonders for me thus far (9.

Went to the gym this morning for a short workout just to figure out wh...

Finished figuring out my test weights today.

Just an idea for the rows, I don't know if you tried this but it seems...

Thank you for the suggestion.

Here is how my 1st day went.

I added a small ab workout which turned out to be really good.

Squats 5 X 75 5 X 95 5 X 115 5 X 115 I tried widening my stance...

Keep up the good work.

Thank you for the comments and for reading my journal.

4 Supersets w/ No Breaks Crunches w/ Body on Stability Ball - 20 Reps...

Squats 5 X 75 5 X 95 5 X 115 5 X 130 3 X 155 8 X 115 The 3 X 15...

4 Supersets w/ No Breaks Abs: Crunches (Legs On Stability Ball) 4 * 2...

Squat 5 X 75 5 X 95 5 X 115 5 X 135 5 X 155 Flat Bench 5 X 80...

4 Supersets w/ No Breaks between sets Abs: Crunches (Body On Ball) 4...

Squats 5 X 75 5 X 95 5 X 115 5 X 115 Easy day today, although I'm...

Abs (Superset Crunches and Reverse Crunches w/ No Breaks) Crunches (B...

Squats 5 X 75 5 X 95 5 X 115 5 X 135 3 X 160 8 X 115 Bench 5...

Abs - 4 Supersets of the following w/ No Breaks Crunches (Legs On Bal...

Squat 5 X 80 5 X 100 5 X 120 5 X 140 5 X 160 Went OK today, the ...

Abs: All 4 Supersets Non-Stop Crunches (Body On Ball) 4 X 20 (SS) Rev...

Squat 5 X 80 5 X 100 10 X 120 Decided to combine the 3rd and 4t...

How are your eating habits?

Thanks for the question.

Abs Crunches (On Ball) 4 * 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch 4 * 20 ...

Squats 5 X 80, 5 X 100 5 X 120 5 X 140 3 X 165 8 X 120 Not too ...

Abs (All Supersets, Non-Stop) Crunches (Legs On Ball) 4 * 20 (SS) Reve...

Squat 5 X 80 5 X 100 5 X 120 5 X 140 5 X 165 Wish these wer...

Abs: Same format as usual Crunches (Body On Ball) 4 X 20 (SS) Rever...

Squat 5 x 80 5 x 100 10 x 120 I meant to do the 3rd and 4th set ...

Abs Crunches (On Ball) 4 * 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch 4 * 20 (SS) Si...

subscribed cool to see someone else on the same program, will be wa...

Squat 5 X 80 5 X 100 5 X 120 5 X 140 3 X 165 8 X 120 I am surprised ...

Glad that someone else reads this journal.

A lot of work in your workout.

I am looking forward to it.

Abs Crunches (Legs On Ball) 4 * 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch 4...

Here's a question I'm curious about: In the 5X5 you increase your w...

Hey IL, This journal is fantastic.

Thank you for the compliment and the answer.

Squat 5 X 80 5 X 105 5 X 125 5 X 145 5 X 165 No PRs in this un...

I definitely wish I had started with the beginner work out but I am in...

Great log so far.

I really don't know the anatomy of the elbow, but I'll give this my be...

Thank you for visiting.

Abs (Same method as usual) Crunches (Body On Ball) 4 X 20 (SS) Rev...

Squat 5 X 80 5 X 105 5 X 125 5 X 125 I did all four sets t...

Abs Crunches (On Ball) 4 * 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch 4 * 20 (SS) Side B...

Squats 5 X 80 5 X 105 5 X 125 5 X 145 3 X 170 <--------------------...

Nice PR's there.

Thanks.

Nice session.

Awww maaan.

Abs Crunches (Legs On Ball) 4 * 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch 4 * 20 (SS)...

Nice journal.

Thank you for the compliment and for all the bench press advice you le...

Squats 5 X 85 5 X 105 5 X 130 5 X 150 5 X 170 <---------------...

HAHA.

Nice work IL, That your bench is still higher than your squat is s...

You recommend Pendlay's style of rowing but say that his style of squa...

Who, Why do you say that is Pendlay's style of squatting?

Il Leone, are you new to squatting, or squatting all the way down? ...

Glenn squats olympic style.

can u post wat your routine looks like for one whole week? i dont rea...

Glenn actually squats both ways.

I stand corrected.

It wasn't about correcting anyone.

Wow… got busy in here all of a sudden.

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I learned a lot.

If your hamstrings are tight, you reach a point just after you break p...

What about "the deeper we can squat with good form, the more the ...

Hey hey nice work so far, I'm subscribed now.

Yikes, things went crazy here overnight! Sorry Whodied, maybe I wa...

Thanks for visiting the journal, Vault.

Ok, I think I understand what everyone is saying about keeping the ham...

Abs Crunches (Body On Ball) - 4 X 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch - 4 X 20 (S...

I'm glad you understand because I'm more confused than ever before.

If you do it right you will look like Figure 1 on pg 16, not like Figu...

I wouldn't sweat it, keep up the good work and keep moving those weigh...

Say, are you doing your crunches weighted or not? jw

I don't do these weighted.

Squat 5 X 85 5 X 105 5 X 130 5 X 130 I stopped bottoming o...

Nice session.

Good job all around - I was thinking that you should do all your situp...

It's a good suggestion.

Abs (No Rest During Crunches and Reverse Crunches) Crunches (On Stabil...

Squats 5 X 85 5 X 105 5 X 130 5 X 150 3 X 175 <---------------...

Nice session, Leone! To work on the problem that you are talking ab...

This got me thinking and now that you mention it, I haven't even been ...

I am going to go ahead and post the spreadsheet I've been using.

Abs (No Rest, Start to Finish) Crunches (Legs On Ball) - 4 * 20 (SS) ...

theres nothing better than looking at someones thread for the first ti...

Thanks for checking out the journal.

And here it is.

Look at all that blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, Thanks.

now if only i could get my fiance to say that.

Nah, flip-flops

Abs (No Rest) Crunches (Body On Ball) - 4 X 20 (SS) Reverse Crunch -...

Nice workout with BLUE! 13:55 is not bad either.

Thank you.

Squats 5 X 85 5 X 110 5 X 130 5 X 130 Didn't hang around on these.

Solid work!

the PR's just keep on coming.

Thank you!

Keep up the solid work, bro.

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