Comments on: Get Bigger And Stronger with Stronglifts.com

By: Zachary Hill

Zachary Hill — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:08:29 +0000

I just started this program thanks to you guys! I’m on my second week! I workout Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and I was curious to know if light lap swimming on Tuesday and Thursday would help or hinder gaining muscle mass/strength and recovery? I’ve lost close to 50 lbs in the last two years following the Primal Blueprint, so I’m not so much worried about losing more weight but gaining the strength I’ve lost from my sedentary lifestyle.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:09:39 +0000

I’m doing StrongLifts too! Anybody in the Olympia WA area doing it? Went from a 95 lb squat to 180 lbs in 6 weeks! This program really does work. Not only does it make you strong as an ox, but you also start to look like a stud too. Eleven years of Army PT and gym training and never made progress on my biceps until I started doing this workout with no curling involved.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:18:50 +0000

I’m 18 years old, 174 cm and weigh 71 kg. Gonna get my body fat percentage checked out tomorrow and the day after tomorrow I’m starting the 5×5 programme. I hope it lives up to its promises.

By: Lil' Ectomorph

Lil' Ectomorph — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:48:15 +0000

As far as good form is concerned the program does quite a bit of instruction. Starting with an empty barbell each session so that your practice form before each 5×5 lift.

By: Personal Training Melbourne

Personal Training Melbourne — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:07:52 +0000

I suggest slowly getting into weight training before going for the heavy stuff. I have done this 5 x 5 training myself and found doing compund exercises certainly assists in overall strength and muscle gain.

Cheers
Max

By: John Blair

John Blair — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:39:54 +0000

Everybody has a program. The stronglifts program works…usually. Different bodies respond to different training, and some people just don’t like some training. For me personally, I think it’s a pretty good program and I switch back to it about once or twice a year. But any program where you eat plenty of protein and carbs, work out hard, and get plenty of sleep, means you’ll get bigger and stronger. Try the program and if it does not work for you, do something else. Just an FYI: I see a lot of guys at the gym that are doing forearm curls instead of deadlifts and doing the leg press instead of doing a squat. These types of guys give me great advice that doesn’t work. These are the same guys that talk shit on internet forums and can’t bench press their own body weight. Personally, I try to get my advice from the guys who are benching over 400 lbs and squatting over 600. These are the guys who understand what it takes to really get stronger. Most (good) gyms contain these guys and they’re usually a lot nicer than the bodybuilder types that are half-assing it over on the elliptical machines. My advice: Don’t listen to the internet know-it-alls. Bust your ass in the gym, get 8 hours of sleep a night, eat clean and see a nutritionist about how many carbs and grams of protein you need to actually put on muscle.

By: wtf00k

wtf00k — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:10:05 +0000

Commenter Kian first shoves his qualifications in our faces and then advises us to consult a ‘certified personal trainer’. Does he realize that the vast majority of these so-called trainers working for chain-gyms (24 hr fitness, gold’s gym, bally’s, planet fitness, YMCA) know abso-fucking-lutely nothing about effective training, despite their bachelors or masters degrees in exercise physiology?

“I’m not trying to brag…” Dude, you have a bachelors in *communications studies*. That is not bragging… that is embarassing.

By: Toning Abs

Toning Abs — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:44:28 +0000

Doing compound lifts for five sets of five reps is a great a balance between strength building and superficial muscle hypertrophy. Done this way, your hypertrophy won’t be purely sarcoplasmic, which results in fluid-filled muscles that look big but don’t have a corresponding increase in actual strength. Instead, the 5×5 method promotes myofibrillar hypertrophy: hard, dense muscle fibers that increase strength and size (with no puffiness).

By: Parth

Parth — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:30:15 +0000

Frank Malone – I don’t see any supplement ads on Mehdi’s website.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:48:07 +0000

These 5×5/rippetoes type programs are really just good for beginners or people just interested in general fitness. You really need to take it to another level for better results, and yes I may do a more traditional bodybuilding routine but I squat 575lbs and deadlift 660lbs naturally, not bad for a pure bodybuilder who “isn’t as strong as guys who lift for functional strength” as is commonly believed. Though I am for mostly only compound lifts there are a lot of other ways to add intensity and size/strength then sticking to a generic 5×5 routine and simply adding weight week after week.

Definitely buy a scale (food and for yourself) and keep a daily worksheet of your food, if you’re not making gains the key is not in randomly adding more protein or carbs here or there but in looking at this as a science and calculating what needs to be modified….. if you aren’t doing this you are running along blindly hoping for the best.