Comments on: Get Bigger And Stronger with Stronglifts.com http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/17/get-bigger-stronger-with-strongliftscom/ Men's Interests and Lifestyle Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Personal Training Melbourne http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/17/get-bigger-stronger-with-strongliftscom/comment-page-1/#comment-105249 Personal Training Melbourne Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:07:52 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=31#comment-105249 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 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 http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/17/get-bigger-stronger-with-strongliftscom/comment-page-1/#comment-102030 John Blair Fri, 21 May 2010 15:39:54 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=31#comment-102030 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. 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 http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/17/get-bigger-stronger-with-strongliftscom/comment-page-1/#comment-101392 wtf00k Wed, 12 May 2010 09:15:20 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=31#comment-101392 "Fitness" and "certified personal trainers" are all-too-often having their clients stand on stability balls with 5 lb dumbbells or some similar bullshit. If you take issue with Medhi's descriptions of proper technique, then be specific and say what is wrong with it instead of throwing certifications at us. And for the record, I haven't spent much time ogling over Medhi's slick site, so I really don't know whether his technique is spot on or not. As Frank Malone has already stated, Medhi's Stronglifts 5x5 is a ripoff of Starr and Rippetoe with a decent website and marketing. “Fitness” and “certified personal trainers” are all-too-often having their clients stand on stability balls with 5 lb dumbbells or some similar bullshit. If you take issue with Medhi’s descriptions of proper technique, then be specific and say what is wrong with it instead of throwing certifications at us.

And for the record, I haven’t spent much time ogling over Medhi’s slick site, so I really don’t know whether his technique is spot on or not. As Frank Malone has already stated, Medhi’s Stronglifts 5×5 is a ripoff of Starr and Rippetoe with a decent website and marketing.

]]> By: wtf00k http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/17/get-bigger-stronger-with-strongliftscom/comment-page-1/#comment-101391 wtf00k Wed, 12 May 2010 09:10:05 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=31#comment-101391 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. 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 http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/17/get-bigger-stronger-with-strongliftscom/comment-page-1/#comment-97540 Toning Abs Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:44:28 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=31#comment-97540 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). 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).

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