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StrongLoox 5x5 is a beginner powerbuilding routine that’s based on StrongLifts 5x5.
Like StrongLifts, StrongLoox involves full-body training 3 days per week with a focus on big compound lifts, albeit slightly less so compared to StrongLifts.
While StrongLifts has 2 workouts (A and B), StrongLoox has a third workout (workout C) that gives StrongLoox higher exercise variation than StrongLifts has.
StrongLoox extends StrongLifts by adding accessory volume (3x10) for “aesthetic muscle groups” to each training session. Trainees isolate their side delts in all 3 workouts. Workout A ends with an abs isolation exercise that develops the obliques, B ends with a pecs isolation, and C ends with a biceps isolation. Still, StrongLooks, having just 5 exercises per training session and including only 5x5 and 3x10 sets/reps schemes, retains most of StrongLifts’s simplicity.
StrongLifts has the squat as the first exercise in both of its A and B workouts. StrongLooks swaps out workout B’s squat for weighted chin-ups because StrongLoox prioritizes aesthetics, for which muscularity of the upper body is much more important than of the lower body.
Workout A
Workout B
Workout C
Like StrongLifts, StrongLoox involves full-body training 3 days per week with a focus on big compound lifts, albeit slightly less so compared to StrongLifts.
While StrongLifts has 2 workouts (A and B), StrongLoox has a third workout (workout C) that gives StrongLoox higher exercise variation than StrongLifts has.
StrongLoox extends StrongLifts by adding accessory volume (3x10) for “aesthetic muscle groups” to each training session. Trainees isolate their side delts in all 3 workouts. Workout A ends with an abs isolation exercise that develops the obliques, B ends with a pecs isolation, and C ends with a biceps isolation. Still, StrongLooks, having just 5 exercises per training session and including only 5x5 and 3x10 sets/reps schemes, retains most of StrongLifts’s simplicity.
StrongLifts has the squat as the first exercise in both of its A and B workouts. StrongLooks swaps out workout B’s squat for weighted chin-ups because StrongLoox prioritizes aesthetics, for which muscularity of the upper body is much more important than of the lower body.
Workout A
- 5x5 Barbell Bench Press
- 5x5 Barbell Bent-Over Row
- 5x5 Barbell Back Squat
- 3x10 Cable Lateral Raise
- 3x(10 per direction) Hanging Circular Leg Raise
Workout B
- 5x5 Standing Dumbbell Overhead Press
- 5x5 Weighted Chin-Up
- 5x5 Conventional Barbell Deadlift
- 3x10 Dumbbell Lateral Raise
- 3x10 Cable Crossover
Workout C
- 5x5 30°-Incline Bench Dumbbell Press
- 5x5 Weighted Pull-Up
- 5x5each Alternating Lunges (Dumbbells or Barbell)
- 3x10 Machine Lateral Raise
- 3x10 Cable Biceps Curl
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