The acronym was introduced/created after the term was popularized. Probably to make it sound better than someone just misspelling babe and not wanting to admit their mistake. Fun worthless fact of the day 
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Did you Urban Dictionary that info? Lol
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Minor in memeology.
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I think it’s just a shorter word. Most of the people that I deal with at work are so lazy that they make up words instead of just freaking speaking like an educated adult.
Example: THOT (that hoe over there)
And when they tell me what happened leading up to a physical fight everyone just starts saying “whoopty whoop”.
“Well, she got out the car and was all like whoopty whoop and then I said bring it and then we scrapped.”
What? How the hell am I supposed to write a detailed and thorough report based off that? I need specifics people!
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Guarding the back door of an unoccupied house for hours while detectives get and execute a search warrant is a great way to lose weight.
My lunch is in the car in front of the house… SMH
So… Much… Hunger
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I’m choosing to read that as ‘suck my hole’.
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6 weeks of successful (slow) weight loss. Sloppy 3 days and all gone… being old sucks haha
Back on it!
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If you gained it in three you should be able to lose it in one… just take a big dump
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In the same vein … In regards to home and her work. My wife is know as the HBIC
Everytime I see someone with big hips, no arms, no delts and a slopped chest setting up in the squat rack, I immediately assume he’s going to do low bar squats in sets of 5. 9 out of 10 times I’m right. The 1 out of 10 does military presses in sets of 5, obviously a heretic commiting heresy by changing the order of the exercises.
To be fair, I’m wondering whether it’s people with these proportions from the start who are attracted to these 5x5 programs.
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I daresay a bit of confirmation bias comes into play here. How many people do you see that don’t match that description doing 5x5? Or maybe if they arnt chubby with hips you don’t even bother to count their reps…?
The common variations of the programs and not just the rep scheme? NONE. The low bar squat technique taught is similar from Stronglifts to Starting Strength so it’s easily identifiable.
Again, this is just my personal observation and I did say, out of fairness, it could be due to a common attraction to the 5x5 brands before serious training even commenced, something like a group identification thing. Which would mean the image of Rippetoe is more powerful than people think.
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SS hater.
Just saying.
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Lol I’m being serious. It just happened again today at a new gym and I thought I must be psychic.
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No, you are right. SS and Stronglifts attract people looking to drink the Kool aid, it’s true. I did want to drink the Kool Aid, and I am drinking it again, running another LP, totally SS. But, I took the summer off and I struggled squatting 135 after getting up to a 1RM of 290.
So, I am back on the gain train, trying to get to three plates before I turn 55 and am running SS NLP again.
But, the technique, I think, is good, and the idea of a well run LP is good as well.
So, you can go back to envisioning me with a big ass with no delts trying to hit a golf ball.
At least until I stall, then I go back to 5/3/1 with laterals at 10 pounds each trying to get jacked.
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I REALLY don’t think there’s anything wrong with the progression scheme for an experienced lifter who’s taken time off. And there’s nothing wrong with doing some assistance exercises to to balance out the physique.
Also, I told you before, you don’t squat like normal Rippetoe zealots. You use a lot of quads. Fucking heretic.
Edit. Not saying you’re a zealot and you should know I have a lot of respect for you, Flanders.
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I think you’re onto something here. It’s been said a lot before; lifting isn’t for everyone. There are some folks out there that are simply not going to “get it”, and after a long time spent training will have crap results to show for it. Inevitably, they’ll say “It MUST be because all those other programs are for people on steroids; I need the most effective program for a natural beginner” and they’ll hop onto that style of training.
And the type of person genetically predisposed to be poor at lifting is most likely going to be built like that.
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It kinda does make sense that you would see mostly beginners doing a beginner Lp program 
I’m not trying to come across as a douche as I respect your opinion and experience under the bar. What would be your suggestion to a complete beginner who just wants to build some strength and mass…? Just straight up bro split as the isolation and machines are easier to learn and build some mass 1St or…?
Yeah, it’s really because I am uncoachable. I really want to stick my ass to the wall, to point my nipples to the floor, to shove my knees out, and to have hip drahve - it’s just that I am too stoopid to actually take coaching.
Oh, awesome.
Bam, right in the nutsack.
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You are saying beginners normally have these proportions? It would, e.g, take some time for the chest to end up sloped since there is enough hypertrophy of the pecs for the lack of development of the clavicular head to be obvious.
Most “beginners” I speak to end up doing the same thing for up to 2 years. It is also the same thing I read online. This is why I have such a poor opinion of these programs.
See, this is a rather large conundrum since people nowadays get all their info online. There is a lack of discussion and proper well-written guides(a lot you see on popular bodybuilding sites SUCK) for properly doing a balanced split and the execution of various exercises, both compound and isolations. FFS you guys call it a bro split lol.
So, in the absence of these, and given the fact that the beginner is going to read a lot of wrong shit about splits online from people who know nothing about splits other than they’ve seen idiots doing stupid things in the gym, all I can do is recommend something that is closest to what I feel is optimal, which would be 531. And my definition of optimal is not just the program, it is the support groups which do not have a high percentage of noobs and it’s general principles.
In a perfect world, beginners would just go up to the big and strong guys in real life and learn the ropes, just like how everything else is done.
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