When you cannot do 5×5 sets any longer with the weights you are using at that moment, it’s time to rest for a week. By week 8 – 12, you will reach your previous maximum (and top it!). In this case you will start out by using lighter weights, but after every time you workout, you will use heavier weights than the time before. The efficiency of this 5×5 workout plan is based on progressively increasing the weights used after each time you work out within a given cycle. Of course muscle mass will increase when strength increases and the increased muscle mass helps with weight management, but the main concept of this workout plan focuses on building maximum strength. On the contrary, the idea is to increase weight and therefore build STRENGTH. The idea is not to “pump iron” or train the muscle until it hurts. Please notice that the aim of this workout plan is not for building muscle or controlling weight management.
The workout plan is not recommended for beginners because when doing big exercises with heavy weights, your technique needs to be perfect. The workout plan is easy to follow and it includes big basic exercises (squat, deadlift, bench press, bent-over row and shoulder press) which are done five times with five rep sets (5 sets of 5 reps), excluding deadlift. The traditional 5×5 program is a very simple and effective workout plan for quickly increasing your maximum strength. Simple but remarkably effective workout plan for increasing maximum strength.
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