Starting Strength after 2 months of 'my' schedule?

JuroNemo14
JuroNemo14 Posts: 101 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hello lads,

After having gone to the gym religiously for three times a week(having skipped no times) for two months, I realized that my workout is kind of amateurish, and by that, it is mostly based upon something I grabbed from this website:

http://www.musclehack.com/best-3-day-workout-routine/

Now, 2 months later, I want to start taking this a bit more serious, and am willing to increase the frequency of gym visits to 4 times a week. I also wish to have a more balanced program, and heard that Starting Strength is the perfect schedule for me. However, seeing the amount of exercises, I can't but feel uneasy at the notion of doing a lot less exercises than I did before. Where before, I would do 10 different exercises a day, here, I am switched to 4 or 5 exercises a day.

I was content with the difficulty before, but I doubted the true balance of the workout, which is why I wanted to switch. But switching back to such a relatively 'easy' workout also feels kind of wrong.

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  • 3laine75
    3laine75 Posts: 3,069 Member
    Starting strength is a great programme and so is SL 5x5 (which you might prefer as it is very similair but more volume). If you prefer a 4 day programme though, I can't recommend wendlers 5/3/1 highly enough. All the big lifts from SS and SL but you can add more of the accessory work you're fond off.

    ETA: the reason for there being less exercises are they are all big compound lifts that use a lot of muscles simultaneously.
  • JuroNemo14
    JuroNemo14 Posts: 101 Member
    So, just to be sure, if I continue with doing SS, and stop doing the other 'accessory exercises' I did before, I will not lose strength in for example my biceps (since I don't isolate them any longer), as long as I try to reach the maximum weight with every thing.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    So, just to be sure, if I continue with doing SS, and stop doing the other 'accessory exercises' I did before, I will not lose strength in for example my biceps (since I don't isolate them any longer), as long as I try to reach the maximum weight with every thing.

    its anything you will gain strength as you are focusing on the bigger compound movements….

    I do an upper lower split four days a week and I am typically doing four to six sets of exercise each day and I have had no issues with strength, losing body fat, etc...

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