A man with two watches

So the saying goes that a man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. And this exactly is the case with me. I have read so many articles, and never really followed anyone through and through, that I am pretty confused about the workouts I am doing.

I mentioned the Rippetoe Novice workout in my post, and then at the same time I was also reading the Stronglifts 5x5 report by Mehdi Hadim, and both these programs sounded awfully similar, so I thought they were. But they had some differences. To hell with that, here's the summary:

Now, since I am not going to be following the numbers anyway, so take that out. That means Rippetoe's workout only has one more thing that Mehdi's doesn't, and that is Power Clean. Now that's a difficult move to learn, even tougher to master, and I already have a history of getting injured doing it with dumbbells. So, I guess I will just follow Mehdi's. Though it's tempting to try Rippetoe's workout, I honestly don't have enough months for either of then. I will do what Mehdi says on the 10 of the next 20 days. On the other ten days? I will probably just jump rope, or do the same for the other ten too.

Here are some links on how to do these:

Power Clean and this
Full Squat
Deadlift
Rowing

EDIT:

The 5x5 workout.

• Do 5 sets of 5 reps with the same weight
• Add 5lbs/2.5kg total weight each workout until you can't get 5 reps on all 5 sets anymore
• Take 10% weight off for the exercise you stalled on only, continue adding weight on the
other exercises
• Continue adding 5lbs/2.5kg total weight each workout until you stall again
• Repeat this 1 step back, 2 steps forward approach until you can Squat close to 1.5x your
body-weight for 5x5