This is an updated version of a previously published article from June 2008.
If you have been reading weightlifting materials for any length of time, you have probably heard of 5×5 training. It has definitely worked for many trainees. I even made excellent progress on a 5×5 program. But with all this 5×5 hype, has anyone stopped to think that there might be an even more efficient way to train? Well, from my experience, there is.
This is not a powerlifting routing or a bodybuilding routine. This is not a conditioning routine or a cardiovascular routine. In fact it is all of those and none of those.
A 3×5 approach to strength training is a free weight routine designed to get you back into shape, to give you a break from a more mundane routine, or to blast you through a plateau.
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