Lifting Question (Stronglifts + more)

7and7UntilHomeless · 2020-08-21T12:37:53+00:00

You’d be surprised at what your body can handle. I would keep up with SL and your calisthenics, up your food a LITTLE and see how it works out. If you’re beat all the time back off your calisthenics a bit if you’re goal is to get big. I lift 3 days a week, do cardio 3 days and backpack at least a few times a month and I’d say I’m a respectable size.

Pay attention to how YOU feel, the rest is just frame work.

nofappist · 2020-08-21T15:05:47+00:00

It sounds like you want to do this, so do it and push your limits. Try it. Your body will tell you when it's not getting enough recovery. You'll get under the bar and the weight will feel like a mountain. Then you'll know how much you can push yourself before you start seeing diminishing returns.

MrNeverDryDick · 2020-08-21T16:37:15+00:00

I’mma go against the grains and say nah, pick one or the other. SL adds up if you’re following it properly. To the point you will NEED those off days. A routine isn’t a routine unless you follow it like it is outlined.

You can do both sure, but you’re not gonna make serious progress with strength and mass by combining them.

Sylvester_Sterone · 2020-08-22T01:09:30+00:00

Hit the strength first then add in the other shit. We will call that auxiliaries.

xxx69harambe69xxx · 2020-08-22T01:20:53+00:00

if it hurts, stop for the day, dont do that exercise for a couple days, and start at a lower weight when you do it again

there, now stop seeing everything on the internet as a commandment you cannot break

Fabulous-Craft · 2020-08-21T16:33:26+00:00

You can do it. It's just going to take proper rest & nutrition.

Calibrate when you start to plateau or regress in your lifts or calisthenics.

amwfhunter · 2020-08-21T16:56:42+00:00

It is possible to do that but it is relative to your recovery routine, how hard you actually train etc.

My suggestion is to monitor your progress with journals and see if there are any dips in performance. It depends on what your goals are.

Muscle mass gaining (getting bigger) is more dependent on how you train and diet. Bodyweight is functional exercise but if you get stimulated enough u will grow muscle with enough calories. Obviously heavier weight will facilitate muscle growth faster. You are also working different muscle fibres. Bodyweight initially will train type 2 fast twitch but when you are strong enough unless you use more weight, you will train type 1 fibres for endurance. Where as heavy lifting, you will almost always improve type 2.

However, if you do find a decrease in performance due to over training...then you will have to cut back on one. Personally I think muscle is only good if it is useful, not just for looks. But I am also a competitive athlete not in a pure strength sport. You may get different answers here depending on who you ask. It boils down to what you want to accomplish.

Jdamoftruth · 2020-08-21T19:25:17+00:00

Now my workouts mainly consisted of dumbbells and the calisthenic rings (with the goal of learning skills such as levers, flagpoles, handstands, muscleups etc).

Unless you are really light, developing that level of strength needed is going to be very difficult without weights.

My question is this, gyms finally re-opened in area so I started the Stronglifts 5x5 program, but it strongly is against adding any additional exercises as you will strain and fatigue yourself

I'm not a fan of this protocol. Just simply not enough volume. Strain and fatigue is the point of lifting. 5x5 isn't enough volume.

I'm kind of at a dilemma because I obviously want to get bigger, but I also really want to learn those skills I mentioned above

Fuck the skills. Build strength and muscle first

while also doing calisthenics stuff?

Calisthenics are decent for warmups but beyond that it's just shit pussies do that don't want to feel the pain of lifting

I'm lifting a lot lighter and can manage a 2nd workout in a day,

Lift heavier. If you can manage a second workout, your first one was bullshit. Compound lifts and then accessory muscles

asdf604asdf · 2020-08-21T19:29:01+00:00

strong lifts is pretty low volume. you can do other stuff

grandorder123 · 2020-08-21T16:00:09+00:00

Go for it man. Don't add the extra workouts all at once and make sure you up your calories so you can actually recover properly.

Title	Lifting Question (Stronglifts + more)
Author	FormerBradFutureChad
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Date	August 21, 2020 12:00 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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