Do you have a knowledgable experienced person to guide you? Cause you can make plenty of mistakes on your own, like what exercises to do, how often, what form to use, how much to eat, it’s endless.
The first time I did them it was for three months, then I had to stop working out because of real world things. A while later I started over for two months and felt I had to move on to the Texas Method. Once again reality interfered, and a month ago I started over again. This time things went very quickly. In a month I was back to where I had left off.
Yeah, I’ve heard good things about 5x5.
I understand the exercises; I have worked out throughout my four years of high school. The problem was that I would always cut an obscene amount of weight during wrestling season, thereby erasing most gains. Though now that I’ve started working out again, I feel like I have a problem with the nutrition aspect. I honestly feel like I can’t eat enough to grow to my full potential, which is quite frustrating. Always been good at cutting weight, never been good at gaining it. 
I weightlift about 3x a week which includes just about everything. I try to get cardio (1-2 miles at a jogging pace) in at least 4-5 times a week as well.
I eat pretty damn healthy (mostly natural, unprocessed foods) and have an ocassional cheat day here and there. Since, the summer is coming an ocassional beer will slip in there too.
ever heard of GOMAD?
That happened to me my first few years of highschool(like 10 years ago or so..). Ultimately though I quit wrestling and joined the ski team. 3 years later outside of HS I was benching 320lb and weighed 185. Couldn’t have done that at all if I continued wrestling. Still, in retrospect, now that I am doing crossfit, I think I am healthier now with a more intense style workout. The style is very similar to a wrestling style conditioning workout only with strength built into it. Even though I was much bigger back then, I didn’t feel nearly as healthy or as physically capable as I do now thanks to xfit.
Here is an example of a more strength oriented workout.
The workouts differe from all variuos forms of high intensity. Sometimes we do strength on it’s own, other times it’s incorperated into the workout. All kinds of different objects are used. The thing I like about it over heavy heavy lifting is that this is high paced, you never have time to get bored. It’s always fun.
Yes, I’m currently doing Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 program and I’ve been doing it since August with some seriously great strength gains. I’ve heard West Side for Skinny Bastards, 1 & 2, are great programs (I think Joe DeFranco made them though I could be wrong). Wendler’s 5/3/1 doesn’t have any dynamic effort like most westside barbell programs do, but I may wind up trying it some time. You getting into powerlifting kaju?
As a general note for this thread, I would recommend anybody who wants to do olympic weightlifting to get a coach. I was told the same thing when I started and I didn’t listen, and it was a struggle like no other for over a year.
I was the same way but then wound up gaining 50 lbs. within a few years. Red meat and eating like a complete slob in general combined with deadlifts, power cleans, bench press, standing press, squats, and rows will work wonders for putting on mass.
I use weights for building muscles that contribute to speed and agility. I’m trying to get up to a world class sprinter.
Quoted for truth, if you want to mass up you just need to eat(alot) while you work out heavily. This is how I was able to amass so much weight before and lift so much in my earlier ages.
Power snatch and power clean will really boost your sprinting, especially off the line.
What muscle groups are those supposed to target?
I weight train and do some weightlifting. Trying to get into it a bit more now that the swimming season is done. Felt pretty terrible today though with my snatches and squats.
Pretty much all of them, though with a heavy emphasis on the posterior chain and the quadriceps.
What should be of particular interest to you is that at some high level competition (may have even been an olymics) they tested the general athletic abilities of various athletes, and the weightlifters had routinely faster 40m times than anyone else, even the sprinters.
I’ve always been extremely un-sporty, but over the last four or five years been going to the gym pretty regularly, never been able to get any really serious gains though. I’ve switched around my program a bit, and so on, but I reckon I’ve never had a long sustained period of eating enough and working out regularly enough combined with low enough drug use to get any massive results.
I’d like some advice though. I’m going to restart today or tomorrow, I want a new program. I’m 19 and weigh 79 kg/175lb, probably 15%ish body fat, I’m not sure I haven’t done a measure in 5+ years.
1RM squat is around 200lb, deadlift around 230lb, bench about 165lb.
Anyone got any ideas? I have a “gym” at the end of my garden with a squat rack and a bench, about 300lb worth of weights for an olympic bar, got a EZ curl bar as well, plus adjustable olympic dumbbells.
Read this. With the barbell, the bench, the plates, and the dumbbells, you got all you need.
QFT
What if it turns Mad Max? You’ll want a crazy bitch like me that can cobble together engines and some how make it work. :3
I trained mostly the big three while in college, but never went to any meets since I was more into Judo/BJJ than lifting. Now I do the O-lifts to stay in shape.
BTW, Rippetoe was interviewed by Motorhome Diaries here.
lol yes. The old “squats and milk” program. I think I just need to man-up and do it.
That looks like an absolutely sick workout.
Yeah, I plan on it. My university holds a powerlifting comp every year, which I plan to win next year at 190lbs. From there, I wanna look around and find some more comps to go to.
O-lifting seems super sweet, and I am interested in it, but I don’t plan on getting into it because I don’t know how to even start.
I would do the same but I’m a bit short on cash. I’ll probably pick up more working hours though and once I man-up I’ll go hardcore and drink a gallon of milk a day. 
I did BJJ at a local university when I wrestled in high school. It’s a really cool sport. Hopefully I’ll pick it up again soon. But first I want to gain lots and lots of muscle mass!