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Originally Posted by olympicweightlifter
what a crappy routine. how about posting bill starrs 5x5 or starting strength?
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As stated above, but with further elaboration:
The 5x5 and Starting Strength are great routines, I'll give you that but they are geared towards people with "some" experience in weight lifting. Even Starting Strength, while stated as being for novices, focuses on heavy weight and linear progression. For someone coming from being completely sedentary to lifting, that kind of trauma to their muscles is going to hurt like hell and not in the "feel the burn" way, more in the "jesus tap dancing christ what the hell was I thinking, my legs are falling off" way. I would definitely recommend that someone trying to get acclimated to lifting start out with something similar to the above routine to get their muscles used to that kind of abuse.
As it is, I don't disagree with you that Starting Strength and the 5x5 are awesome, I just think that they could be more detrimental than beneficial to a true newbie that just needs to introduce his muscles to training. After a fews months of the above, I'd say that it's time to start the punishment.