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Workout A

April 21, 2014 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Weights

Comments:
Decided on a whim at the end of the day to move to a simple 5x5 program. At this point I'm confident I'll see similar strength gains as in the other program and the biggest advantage this one has is that it will take me less time to complete each workout, which makes it much easier to fit in.

Simple program.
Workout A
Squat 5x5
Bench 5x5
Row 5x5

Workout B
Squat 5x5
Overhead Press 5x5
Deadlift 1x5

If you hit all 5 reps on all 5 sets you add 5 pounds the next time you do that exercise, excpet for deadlift where you go up 10. So you go up 10 pounds per week on squat and 5 or 10 on the others depending on how often you do that workout each week, alternating A and B. I didn't really know where to start on the weights for all of these, so I kinda picked based on where I was on the other program.

Squat 5x5 150. Easy, took 90 seconds rest on them all and knocked it out no problem.

Bench 5x5 95. Also easy,not surprising from what I was doing before. Curious to see how many workouts I can go before I start to find failure on the later sets.

Rox 5x5 95. I know I probably should have started the weight higher on this but I was being conservative since you go up 5 pounds each time you do it. Went well.

Overall a pretty easy first day but I'm excited to see the progress I can make on this before school starts in July.