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I would also recommend Wendler 531 (https://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/comments/4sbgpw/531_how_to_build_pure_strength/ https://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/comm

• dredmorbius 9y ago
  By the time you're looking at follow-up programmes, you should start reading about periodisation, and why sticking with any one programme indefinitely limits further development. Stronglifts / 3x5 programmes are a good initiation. Once you're initiated, you want to understand the stimulus / response / rest / nutrition relationships, and identify what your specific training and fitness goals, needs, and limitations are. That's what you end up building a programme around. The problem with beginners -- in any field -- is that they tend to develop One True Religionism. If you've been doing nothing, then doing virtually anything is better. But that virtually anything can progress in response only up to a point. That's where the complications come in. The key point is that your goals determine your methods. Though the basics remain, for strength: full-body, compound, freeweight movements, with training frequency, set, rep, and inter-set rest intervals selected to address your specific goals. Similar principles drive other elements of fitness: cardio (if that's your thing), skill-based activities, etc. They can even be generalised to other domains of life.
  • Mc_Big_G 9y ago
    FYI, Periodization is built into 5/3/1