I'm starting to lift again, and i wanted to do stronglifts 5x5. I have 2 questions.
1. I'm naturally t-rex mode, i always had huge legs. I don't wanna squat 3 times a week to become a living t-rex. What can i replace the squats with?
2. Can i do 3x5 or 5x5 deadlifts? Doing only 1x5 deadlift is sad.
Thanks for the help, /fit/izens.
>>36369931
Something something read the sticky
do SS. don't change a thing. you can ignore this advice, but your progress will suffer.
>>36369939
I've read it a lot of times. I lifted seriously for about a year then had to stop for various reasons, what i am asking is: as someone who knows a little bit about lifting and someone with disproportionate legs, can i adjust this to my needings?
>>36369945
I've been doing it without changing a thing for the past 2 weeks,and i've recovered some of my old strenght, but i'm still facing my problem with squats :/
Same boat senpai.
Do 5x5 core excercises + a bunch of upper body accessories like inclune dumbell press, curls, pulldowns, pull ups etc etc.
>>36369964
>had to stop for various reasons
tell us more
>>36369931
You don't even train biceps with the 5x5 program. Why even do it?
>>36370090
Finished highschool, so i had to take admission tests for university (i wanted to study medicine, and the test for doing so is pretty difficult) and when i passed them i had to move.
So; studying + moving city had me losing like 3 months.
Then i started uni. I was a little bit nervous about it and i was afraid i couldn't take everything (uni + lifting + friends + family + gf + lifting seemed impossible, i decided to take lifting out of it.)
Now that i crushed my exams and proved myself i can do all the things i said above, i'm getting back on track!
>>36370088
Are you telling me what you're doing or what you did (and worked)?
>>36370230
>chinups
>not training biceps
also, i don't really care about my arms right now because what's lacking here is back and chest
(and also because i prefer having huge meat shield on my back than having big arms
To add infos, what i looked like when i stopped lifting. I wasn't big (76kg at 180cm in pic related) but i improved a lot from where i started and i was happy about it
>>36370243
sounds good m8, all the right decisions were made and now it pays of. cheers.
>tfw the retard who wants to do sl without squats looks better than you
>>36370321
Thanks. I hope i can make this going for as much as possible, before med schools kill my social life :^)
>>36370336
Actually this doesn't sound as a good idea to me to, but i don't know what to do. Doing squats for me is like a fatass deciding to dirty bulk
Also, pic is what i looked back then, now i'm far from there (a little bit smaller, with a little more fat)
unrelated: when i stopped lifting i lost muscles in a weird way. (chest-->gone, arms, abs and shoulders-->nothing changed, back slightly smaller
So i should just follow 5x5 or starting strengh without changes? Not even adding more deadlifts to 5x5? :'(
I'd say yes OP. Stick to it for at least a couple more weeks before adding something.
And about legs, you can just squat until you feel they are actually getting bigger and stop right there
>>36370644
i will squat as long as this doesn't make me have to change trousers because they don't fit me anymore then, lol
