Who's doing 5x5 and why?

codehandle

• who's doing 5x5?
• why are you doing it?
• how much have you lost / how much do you have left to go?
• how do you prevent injury?
• What videos/books/websites would you recommend?
• Should My Fitness Pal include your calories burned by 5x5 in its food diary?

questionfear

I am in my third week of 5x5. Have lost about 4lbs, eventually aiming through deficit to lose about 25 more.

I want to be stronger, and more fit, so that's why I'm doing it. And I know that I don't have a lot of background in lifting, so the program gives me a good baseline. My goal is to get at least 12 weeks into it before I branch out, if I do at all.

I wasn't logging my workouts, but I am going to start so I can see if there's a pattern in how hungry or how I eat on lifting days. MFP estimated that a 35 minute routine only burned about 150 calories, so I'm not eating them back unless I'm desperately hungry.

In addition to the stronglifts site, I highly recommend NerdFitness, they have some excellent tutorials on squats and overhead presses that helped me better visualize the form work. I also try to pantomime the form with no bar and with the empty bar just to make sure I have an idea of how it should feel.

Th3Ph03n1x

• I just started it.
• To minimize muscle loss while I lose and because it's a fairly simple straight forward program.
• I have lost 8 lbs but not from 5X5 (again I just started it). I have about 40 more lbs to goal then I'll decide if I'm stopping there or not.
• I practice my form and I started lighter than what i'm confident I can lift. I have my hubby help me make sure my form is correct while I'm lifting also.
• Body builder.com is a good resource for lifting in general and they have plenty of videos for how to do different lifts
• I have no idea how to calculate strength calories. I just go on like I didn't burn any and call it a bonus deficit

Jennloella

Several months, doing it to get my strength back, did it to gain in the beginning and now maintaining. Eta I don't count cals so that doesn't bother me, I just track what I'm lifting.

yusaku02

>Why
Strength obviously.

>How much have you lost
Gaining weight bro, not gonna get stronger by losing weight. Up about 10 pounds

>How do you prevent Injury
Slow and controlled reps. Learned this the hard way... Shoulder is still healing

>Videos/books/websites
probably bodybuilding.com

>should mfp include calories burned
not really necessary. If you lift big then eat big. If not, don't.

dbmata

Why not?

Who do you work for?

Why are you attempting to interrogate others?

Where is the the SPECTRE base?

ShellyBell999

It's my go to training for the last year now.
Didn't lose weight, lost 4 pant sizes
Using proper form prevents injuries

dbmata

codehandle wrote: »

• Should My Fitness Pal include your calories burned by 5x5 in its food diary?

Oh, and to directly answer this one.

No. Lifting is not food. A food diary is for food.

DirrtyH

I just started 5x5. I've done it before but got interrupted so I'm starting over.

Reasons why:
I want to maintain as much lean body mass as I can
I want to strengthen my muscles so I don't hurt myself bending over to pick up trash (that seriously happened to me once)
I want a sexy butt
Stronglifts doesn't make me do bicep curls