StrongLifts 5x5 - cost?

The program is free to download and use. There is also a free app for tracking sets.

The membership geis you entrance to his forum.

Oddly enough, he happened to send me info about his "Inner Circle" today. Rates were $200/year or $55/90 days or $20/month.

The high level douchery is definitely dissuading me from sending him my USD.

Working for me

You have Gold membership? Is it as testosterone filled as one would expect?

The program is pretty solid. He pretty much stole it from Reg Park. I doubt the gold membership would provide anything except motivation. If you need that, it might be worth it.

I found Mehdi to be such a misogynistic douche that I had to unlike the FB page and unsubscribe from the emails. He is also, despite claiming that the program is not about putting up numbers but about making progress, obsessed with putting up big squat and deadlift numbers to the point that he defends bouncing at the bottom of a squat a legitimate practice.

I felt a bit like being sprayed with a douche nozzle after reading his webpage. But, yeah, the program seems solid. QFT about Reg Park.

Yup.

Here is a program that is just as good and less focused on squats which I cannot do 3 times a week at age 43. I got excellent results from it. Dropped it when I decided to give Crossfit a try.

http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/forget-steroids-5-fullbody-workouts-for-serious-gains.html#2

Great program and you can finish it in an hour if some bro isn't hogging the squat rack to do shrugs.

The only modification I would suggest is do standing shoulder presses instead of seated.

I'm doing that M&S program and it's awesome. Both my husband and I really enjoy it. Good stuff.

Oddly enough, he happened to send me info about his "Inner Circle" today. Rates were $200/year or $55/90 days or $20/month.

The high level douchery is definitely dissuading me from sending him my USD.

This ^ ... I also started doing the program a couple of months ago and have been incessantly indundated with my "limited time offer" to join his inner circle yesterday and once that day passed without me ponying up the $$ I got another email today with a 30 day free trial offer. At this point I don't think it's anything I need especially with all the people here willing to give up their time and offer information and answer questions. I'm also not sure how long I'm going to continue his program, I'm using primarily now bc I'm in a calorie deficit and trying to hold onto as much LBM and strength that I can. Once I reach my goal .. and if all goes as planned I may do a bulk cycle and go back to my split routines which incorporate isolation excercises.

When Medhi is a qualified, accomplished lifter and trainer, I might be interested.
Until then, there's plenty of free information from better lifters or trainers around.

I was going to us SL5x5 to start lifting when I moved from high intensity fitness workouts (Insanity and the like). My attraction was the simplicity of squats, bench, row & squat, ohp, deadlift on alternating A & B days was very attractive as a beginner to lifting. Unfortunately, as someone else said, the douche is strong with Mehdi. I just couldn't get past his jerkery to be willing to do even the free program, let alone join SLIC so I could get access to things like SL3x3.

Instead, I paid the money for Shuler and Cosgrove's New Rules of Lifting and it's been worth all the $10 I spent for it. No broscience in NRoL, some of the best non-technical explanations of how the body works I've ever read, and an easy, straight forward, year long program to follow.

I say spend $10 for NRoL. Shuler has some humility, too, and that is a huge factor to me. He's not convinced he knows it all, he's always trying new stuff and the NRoL program is easy to understand and follow.

From what I've read about Mhedi is that he does come off as a tool. I still like the program though. But took what he said with a grain of salt.

I didn't want to sign up so that he can email **** that I don't care for so i just type "stronglifts 5x5 pdf" in google and the pdf came up

Wow. Quite a lot of negativity towards Mehdi on here....he never states that he developed the 5x5 method....Infact he clearly sats that Reg Park was more than likely it's creator. And he does supply a free detailed report. As for his "douchery", he's effectively a salesman and that's how it chooses to market it. Again, the e-mails are free and there's some good advice in them.He's quite hardcore because he's very serious about his training and thinks that those who aren't, won't get the best results because they won't train with the same intensity. I wouldn't take it personally. You can unsubscribe from the e-mails. It's a shame that some people have been put off from trying SL 5x5 because of their view of him. It's a great program, IMO and great fun.

Exactly. Well put.

If you are set on SL, then I would just run it until it runs itself out. Usually 3-4 months at best and then move onto more advanced programming or just pick a better program. Either choice is fine if you are just starting or coming of a hiatus.

I certainly wouldn't recommend doing the deload and repeat crash, deload though. That is extreme flaw in the basic LP programming any experienced coach will tell you.