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I read Men's Health every now and then and they put out an article on their website promoting this workout:

http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/5_...st_Workout.php

Does that really make sense? I mean, will that really gain muscle?

Thanks all

Maybe. There is no outline for progression. Diet is as important as training.

It looks like some sort of bastard child of starting strength and the texas method

Definitely not the world's smartest workout, in fact it isn't even a workout. It's 3 workouts.

His 5 rules, and by his I mean Chad Waterbury , suck! I couldn't even finish reading them to be honest. They're mostly just trying to hype you up into believing he's found something revolutionary.

Strike 1.

Deadlift gets a third seat and bench is top dog. Strike 2. Benchpress should be last and deadlift should be first. According to rule #3 you're 'strong' muscle fibres will stop working after 15 seconds.

I would use those 15s to deadlift.

This is nothing more than a 5x5 in a different package.

He says 'don't sweat the small sets' (meaning its ok to do sets of 4 or 5 or even 3), 'lift big to grow big' and 'lift fast to get big' but he prescribes a whole day of doing 4x10's?

I don't know what he means by 'do all the reps before resting' and 'rest 45 seconds between sets'.

Again, squat is last? Surpassed by rows and dips? Basically just a 5x3 re-packaged as well.

Overall he says some things that make sense (compounds over isolations, quit if your form is starting to go, using total reps rather a set number of setsxreps).

On the whole the thing is packaged very poorly with alot of phrases and wording that make you think he's onto something. His rules are terrible and worse yet he doesn't even follow them when it comes time to make his 'workout'. He leaves alot on the table in terms of making a good routine.

There is nothing new or revolutionary about this routine and it is FAR from being "The World's Smartest Workout"

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to quote Mr Madcow . . . "there are no golden programs, there are no golden programs, there are no . . . . "

Ross86 is right, he doesnt outline progression parameters or dietary guidelines. just a bunch of exercises, reps and sets . . .*yawn*

but i'd say it aint that great a routine because the big lifts are done only 1x per week.

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whoops my mistake, i didnt read the side bars! after i read the routine outline i got the hell out of there!

ok so he does outline some points but as Kane pointed out, and CW loves to do this, he is just trying to make it seem like he's found something new when it is hardly new at all.

It's Chad Waterbury...

I agree with Kane and Riddick.

He's a dolt who comes to ridiculous conclusions based on anecdotal observations and is notorious for these "workouts of the week" or month...

Actually thinks he's revolutionizing resistance training.

Any yahoo can go around putting programs on paper of a magazine. Chad Waterbury has to be one of the biggest yahoo's out there and how he lands a gig with Men's Health is beyond me.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

I was always under the impression that men's health is retarded. Chad is an idiot though. So caught up in the fine details he's lost total track of the larger picture.

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Men's Health has a large degree of retartedness, yes. After all it is a mag and the primary purpose is to see advertising space. But there are some very good contributers to it. Alan Aragon for one. Dos Remedios.

Oh..I had no idea. Good to keep in mind, sir.

the funniest thing about that routine is that CW is constantly raving on about doing the lifts MORE often for faster results - frequency, frequency, frequency . . . yet this routine contradicts all of that with lifts only 1x a week! and since he is touting this as the worlds smartest workout, that must mean all his other stuff is dumb or at least dumber right?

_wolf_ - i totally agree with you and in fact i think it is part and parcel for the majority of health magazine writing that they MUST focus on the small stuff so none of the readers ever get their mind on the big picture because once they do, they wont be buying those magazines anymore!