5×5 after 2 months.
It’s been about 2 months (9 weeks) on Madcow’s linear 5×5. It’s been pretty good.
Lifting stats grew as follows:
Squat: 185×3 -> 225 x 3
Bench: 165×3 -> 200×3
bent over row: 165×3 -> 190 x 3 (but I stopped the rows, I’m doing power cleans instead for now.)
Deadlift: 5×247 -> 5x 300
Standing military press: 5×95 -> 5×115
I’ve gained about 10 lbs, I could only do about 6 or 7 pullups at the start and now I can do 10 or 11 on a max effort set. Not too worried about where the other assistance exercises are (i.e. curls, extensions, yadda yadda).
I’m pretty excited about these gains. I haven’t sat down to write it out like yet, but now that I see it, it’s pretty huge. Everything went up by about 21% from the start, that’s a lot for 2 months. Hopefully I can perpetuate these gains. I may try deloading and resetting the weight just a tad so I can keep seeing gains.
November 1, 2009 at 10:59 am
working on the 5×5 myself and getting good results. went from 2 min between sets to 1.5 same weight, two more weeks and i will increase weight and try and keep the 1.5 interval