Cambridge Primary English Workbook 5 with Digital Access (1 Year)

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Light Start.StrongLifts 5×5 starts with light weights. This prevents soreness. It gives your body time to adapt to lifting more frequently. It prevents plateauing too early. It forces you to focus on lifting with proper form. And it prepares you for the heavy weeks later.

More Money. You won’t need expensive supplements to get results (most don’t work anyway). You also won’t need a lot of equipment. You can easily build a home gym and train from your garage as I did for ten years. This saves money on gym fees.Thighs. Your quads, glutes and hamstring straighten your legs and hips when you Squat and Deadlift. They also keep you stabilized when you Overhead/Bench Press and Row. Some guys will start too heavy on Squats, because they’re used to cycling or running. But this is irrelevant. The range of motion is smaller on cycling/running vs Squats. Your legs will sore if you start too heavy on Squats, even if you’re used to cycling and running. I wish I could still add weight every workout. But I need a slower progression to get stronger. I need to add weight every week. This gives my body more time to recover from the heavier weights stressing it. It gives ita week to get stronger and build muscle to lift heavier next time. Good calorie calculatorswill suggest guys 16kcal/lb formaintenance. If you weigh 75kg/165lb that’s 2640kcal. But again, you’re not trying to maintain but improve. And adding weight every workout is hard work. It therefore makes sense to eat more. This brings us to 3000kcal/day.

Sometimes you fail reps because you’ve been making mistakes for a while. You got away with it when the weights were light. But nowthat they’re heavier they’re making you fail. The usual mistakesare rushing through your workouts, trying to accelerate progress, and not recovering properly… The key is to increase your strength. Don’t expect the chest development of a 100kg/220lb bencher if you only bench half that. Don’t expect legs like a 180kg/400lb Squatter if you can’t even Squat two plates.Aim for that 140kg/300lb SQ, 100kg/220lb BP and 180kg/400lb DL. Why This Works Bench Press. The upper-body equivalent of the Squat.The Bench strengthens your chest, shoulders and arms. The weight is heavier than on any other upper-body exercise. Squatting first makes you tired for the Bench/OHP. But your goal isn’t to showstrength. Your goal is to build it. Besides, powerlifters Bench/ Deadlift after Squats too in competitions.Get used to it. Never jump into your heavy work sets without warming up first. The weight will feel heavier and you’ll miss reps more. Worse, you can injure yourself because your muscles are cold and you didn’t get to practice proper form. Always warmup by doing several lighter sets first.Deadlift/ Barbell Row.Lower the weight to the floor and wait for the bar to be still before pulling the next rep. Use this rest to reset yourself – neutral spine and chest up. Then take a big breath and pull. This shouldn’t take longer than a second so you don’t lose the stretch reflex. In fact, the upper/lower-body distribution is almost even. Over two weeksyou do150 Squat reps (lower), 150 Bench/OHP reps (upper), 15 DL reps (lower) and 75 Rowsreps (upper). That 43% lower-body vs 57% upper-body work. This creates a balancedbody development. MoreHealth.Your testosterone will increase. Your cholesterol, blood pressure and stress will decrease. Your glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivitywill improve. And so on. All of this will make you feel healthier and younger. You’ll have more energy than before.

According to the legend, Milo from Croton trained for the Olympics by carrying a calf each day. The calf grew bigger which increased the weight he carried. This triggered hisbody to gain strength and muscle. It turned him into the best wrestler of his time. Milo won the Olympic Games 6x. Less Injuries.Your bone density will increase and balance improve. Your joints, spine and the muscles around themwill getstronger. They’ll give them more support and protection. This makes you less likely to get injured and may even eliminate nagging pains. If you want to do more than 1×5 Deadlift, better is to warmup by doing sets of five reps (the app suggests this kind of warmup). This gives you more Deadlift volume without the intensity of doing several sets of five with the same weight. The main reason to not switch to Madcow 5×5 is because progress is slower. It’s silly to add weight every week when you could do so every workout. Add weight on the bar every workout as long as you have the ability to do so. For most people that is until they canalmost Squat 140kg/300lb. The first weeks will feel easy.But the weight will increase fast. Within four weeks you’ll be Squatting 30kg/60lb more, pressing 15kg/30lb more and Deadlifting 30kg/60lb more. Start with the bar and you could be Squatting 100kg/220lb for 5×5 in 12 weeks. That’s more than most people.MoreMuscle. Your muscles will become stronger and bigger to lift the weights. If you’ve never done a proper training program like this one before, you can gain up to 24lb of lean muscle in a year. You’ll also regain lost muscle and stop muscle lossfrom aging/dieting.