The Rippletoe is a beginner's program. What that means is you progress each and every workout by loading the bar. The 5x5 you're talking about is more an intermeditate program, i.e. it would work better for someone who is not able to progress anymroe on a setup like the Starting Strength. But a beginner could do well on it as well.

The best rule of thumb is to start out with the thing that gives you the fastest progression. Whether you can progress for a long time or short time depends on many things including you training experience but you have nothing to lose and probably a lot of strength to gain by doing the Rippletoe 3x5 first. Then when you've exhausted every bit of usefullness out of it move on to an intermediate 5x5.

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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.