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Thanks for sharing – it’s much appreciated! Stronglifts plays out like the plot of a Shakespearean tragi-comedy: Workout A Exercise Now pay attention here because this is going to get complicated. On the about me section of the Stronglifts website, Mehdi shows us his PR squat (5 x 374lb at 176lb body weight) and a 451lb deadlift. The programme itself is based on the 5×5 workout pioneered by everyone’s favourite bodybuilder Reg Park, and also the similar regime devised by legendary American strength coach Glenn Pendlay.
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Stronglifts is the antidote to a series of embarrassing events in Mehdi’s life which include losing an arm wrestle to a woman and constantly hitting plateaus when trying out the latest fad workout. Now Mehdi is not the biggest guy ever, but then you don’t need to be built like Lou Ferrigno to know what you’re talking about (except Ian McCarthy, he literally knows sod all). Stronglifts 5×5 is the brainchild of one Mehdi Hadim, ‘The New Muscles from Brussels’.
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I’ve used that phrase for dramatic effect – sadly I haven’t gone on to be an international standard powerlifter. So the next day I Googled “strength training” and clicked on the top result. This happened to me around 18 months ago. There comes a point in every bodybuilder’s training regime, usually about the time you’re doing a triple drop set of lat raises and you struggle to finish a set with 5kg dumbbells, when you think, “Oh fuck this, I want to be strong!”