Yea, my gripe with Rip is that in order to follow his stressful and low-volume intermediate strength programs, you have to eat like a fatass and get a belly. Some people are fine with that and view strength as an end in itself, but most people want to be both strong and stay at a reasonably low bodyfat percentage.
Sounds like you trained your son perfectly. I did the same thing training one of my pals who wanted to get bigger. He started at a 95x5 squat and moved it to 265x5 in about 2 months (he also ate a lot to support the programming). Then he switched to 5/3/1 and has been making solid progress. Wendler’s programming is just extremely good. It’s amazing what you can do with a 20 year old guy who is willing to eat like a fat bastard for 2 months haha
Ight, gotta weigh in on the Rip debate. For context, I did about ten weeks of SS, had a SSC.
I, too, think it’s one dimensional, and Rip actually admits this. When I was done with my LP my SSC suggested I go back to 5/3/1 for intermediate programming - there’s a bit of an acknowledgement in the SS camp that their intermediate programming isn’t good. They’re more about the coaching method and the LP.
Not sure if everybody knows this, but there is a bit of a schism in SS right now. Jordan Feigenbaum was one of Rip’s golden Boys and he has left SS to ramp up his Barbell Medicine program. He took a few high powered peeps with him, Austin Baraki (Alan Thrall’s guy) and Leah Lutz to name two.
Andy Baker does a lot of intermediate and advanced programming for guys after SS, including the programming for my SSC.
And, one of the reasons Rip left CrossFit was CF’s weakness in terms of progression, kind of the same problem SS has with intermediate programming. Texas Method isn’t for everybody, and HLM isn’t exactly great programming either.
That’s great. I just got my dad to start listening to rap, and now he loves it. It just takes some getting used to, but after you get used to it, it opens up a ton of awesome stuff you can enjoy
That’s awesome! You obviously care a lot about your family. I got my parents into lifting, and both of them have lost a ton of fat and gained muscle. My nana even lifts now. My dad doubled his bench press (now he can do 215x2), and my mom can do 5 strict chins and sets of 30 push-ups. They are both using 5/3/1.
It’s actually kind of funny because my mom can handle so much more volume than I can. She usually trains 6 days per week (3 with weights, 3 with conditioning). I bet your son is trying his hardest to get stronger than you
Yes he is. And from what I’ve seen/read women can handle more volume. I work with my wife and daughter. I need to learn more about female training.
I think my daughter could break the powerlifting records for the state. She is strong as an OC and built to squat. She bench presses 105 as a 10th grader and squats 205.
Dude, your daughter is really strong. Those are great numbers. And yea, females can handle more volume and frequency (both anecdotally and from what I’ve read). My mom can handle sets of 5-10 pretty close to her 1RM. She currently benches around 100 and has been lifting for a year. I bet planetcybertron and some of the other strong folks on here could give some great advice on how to train your wife and daughter.
I don’t “train” my mom anymore because she knows enough now to be completely self-sufficient. She’s also a physical therapist, so she knows a lot about muscle insertions and biomechanics that I don’t know. I just look at her programming whenever she wants input and look at her lifts when I get home from college. Lifting is definitely a fun thing for a family to have in common. I’m firmly convinced that getting stronger raises quality of life.
Not sure if this will be the playlist or just the song that’s playing now, but here’s one of my other favorites. It’s not hype music by most people’s standards but it still keeps me in a good place while lifting, or working, or really anything. I just went to Youtube and searched Volbeat Playlist.
