Of course anyone can nitpick; I think this is a good start, though. I’m not huge on crunch variations (I’ve written about this in the past, so I won’t bore you here), but if you love them, you love them. Unless you have an injury issue, I’d consider replacing one of your 5×5 squats with 5×5 deadlifts and eliminating the 1×5 dl on day 2. 6 weeks should be plenty to reap the full rewards of this program, then change it up! A

But I am someone who works out from time to time, but I’ve never developed a planned workout schedule. Trying to decipher this. 5 sets of just 5 reps (that doesn’t seem like very much). Usually I do 3 sets of 10, is there a benefit to lower reps and more weight? And when you say 3 sets of max reps? Does that mean go till I burn out then stop, rest, then do another, and another. I’ve never figured out the workout terminology so I’d appreciate some clarification or a point in the direction of a good resource you’d reccommend.