Comments on: Still Alive & Progressing Into the Intermediate Stage http://www.startingstrength.net/49-still-alive-progressing-into-the-intermediate-stage/ The ultimate personal blog on starting a strength training routine. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Saro http://www.startingstrength.net/49-still-alive-progressing-into-the-intermediate-stage/comment-page-1/#comment-1010 Saro Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:29:56 +0000 http://www.startingstrength.net/2008/03/14/still-alive-progressing-into-the-intermediate-stage/#comment-1010 Hi, thanks for the comment! I chose the 5x5 routine because of numerous suggestions from online forums. After trying it out for a couple months, I significantly improved my lifts. Mind you, I replaced the barbell rows with power cleans, mostly because I don't enjoy doing them as much. I've also noticed it kills my back (I'm pretty sure I'm doing them right too). Lastly, Mark Rippetoe himself dislikes barbell rows, so it was no brainer to switch it to the basic cleans. Hi, thanks for the comment!

I chose the 5×5 routine because of numerous suggestions from online forums. After trying it out for a couple months, I significantly improved my lifts.

Mind you, I replaced the barbell rows with power cleans, mostly because I don’t enjoy doing them as much. I’ve also noticed it kills my back (I’m pretty sure I’m doing them right too). Lastly, Mark Rippetoe himself dislikes barbell rows, so it was no brainer to switch it to the basic cleans.

]]> By: imnotbncre8ive http://www.startingstrength.net/49-still-alive-progressing-into-the-intermediate-stage/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 imnotbncre8ive Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:12:06 +0000 http://www.startingstrength.net/2008/03/14/still-alive-progressing-into-the-intermediate-stage/#comment-1008 Watsup. Glad to hear your training is going well. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading and learning from your blog posts. It's nice to hear about another's experiences with similar training goals. I actually purchased Starting Strength and Practical Programming a few months back, started Novice training around late-June 2009 I believe. I'm still obviously in the Novice phase, it's getting to be almost two months. I'm hoping that I still have plenty of 'easy' novice gains left, even though I've switched to 2.5 lb increments on squat, press, and bench. My deadlift is lagging behind my squat b/c I only do it once per week and had no deadlifting exp before this program. Perhaps you could explain to me why you chose Bill Starr's 5x5 program for your intermediate routine? I haven't studied the Intermediate programming section of PracticalProgramming in detail, so I would be interested to hear why this routine works better for you. Goodluck with all your training and life goals! Watsup. Glad to hear your training is going well. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading and learning from your blog posts. It’s nice to hear about another’s experiences with similar training goals.

I actually purchased Starting Strength and Practical Programming a few months back, started Novice training around late-June 2009 I believe. I’m still obviously in the Novice phase, it’s getting to be almost two months. I’m hoping that I still have plenty of ‘easy’ novice gains left, even though I’ve switched to 2.5 lb increments on squat, press, and bench. My deadlift is lagging behind my squat b/c I only do it once per week and had no deadlifting exp before this program.

Perhaps you could explain to me why you chose Bill Starr’s 5×5 program for your intermediate routine? I haven’t studied the Intermediate programming section of PracticalProgramming in detail, so I would be interested to hear why this routine works better for you.

Goodluck with all your training and life goals!

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