I know I can but the squat is the death of me. When I do squat I go ass to grass. When I first started I was training for strenght I was doing the 5x5 for bench press which helped but I never really stuck to it, then I hurt my shoulder my goal was to bench 315 @ 165 body weight and just lost all hope.
I took your advice did 5x5 squat yesterday just started slow 235. So your saying each week add 5 to 10 pounds?
Sorry for the late reply had to get passed the new member wait
I was at one point in my 1st year doing 5x5 bench for a while that really shot my strenght but I just kind of got away from that after hurting my shoulder. On my 2nd year of working out I was 150lbs doing 225x2 pr. So the 5/3/1 is 5x5 3x3 and 1x1?
Thanks for the info I will indeed do that
Depending on how easy the 235lbs went. I like to get about 4 to 5 weeks of progression before I fail to get all 5 sets at 5 reps. If 235lbs felt relatively easy, go up 10lbs (to 245lbs).
This is okay. But if you need to relax your hips to get as deep as you go, you will have a difficult time squatting the amount you are capable of doing.
Do you have access to a leg press machine that you can push some heavy weight? I liked to do a few sets of heavy 10 rep leg presses after squats.
I do the max Im at right now is 8 plates but going at it after squats I probably won’t hit all 10 reps
I did heavy squats and leg presses to bring up my legs for bodybuilding contests. I would always keep my leg press repetitions at least 10 reps. Drop the weight if you find that you cannot get all 10 reps. I actually did leg presses in increasing weight (90lb increases), until I got to my maximum weight for 10 reps. I did all sets for 10 reps. If I had it to do again, I would probably do 15 rep sets on the leg press.
