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Hellawulf
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SO this doesn't actually have to do with my routine, but the routine of a client I've been training for quite some time.
He's 54 years old, is 80% blind and comes up to me one day and asks how he can make his butt look better! (I loved it!) I promptly showed him proper squat technique and he hired me right away.
So here's the problem... I felt that he needed to develop core strength. He had pretty nice arms actually, but his shoulders are narrow, his hips are narrow, his chest was underdeveloped and his legs were scrawny... SO I put him on a 5x5 program and I have been just touching the arms to keep them up to par.
SO he calls me today... he says that squats and deads are causing him too much anxiety and he wants to quite them and change up the routine... WHAT!?
He specifically cited "wanted to work the showy muscles more" and replacing squats with leg ext/leg curls... I vehemently object to this.
Some issues I face with him is that he is blind, which causes him to walk with very stiff legs, i.e. he has extremely poor flexibility in his legs, but has been able to develop a decent squat form. Also he cannot prepare his own meals, therefore he goes to a local restaurant. He eats "healthy" in that he eats fairly low carb, but he also eats fairly low fat as well, with his diet mainly consisting of protein and vegetables, but I'm sure his macros are not ideal for seeing any serious changes and he changes his mind every couple weeks as to whether or not he wants to cut or bulk.
I really want to make him feel secure about our program and I'm all for changing up the routine. Considering he has gone from about a 95 pound squat to a 230 pound 5 rep squat in a year, a 115 pound dead, to a 215 dead, and a 135 bench to a 185 bench, the 5x5 did work for him, but he has been starting to stall on all the lifts lately, which is what is causing the insecurity. I am really having trouble busting his plateau.
We went to a push/pull/legs routine not to long ago, but that didn't really seem to help either. I have a feeling he got those initial results because he wasn't in the best of shape to begin with, but now that he has reached maximal results under his current diet, he has plateaued out and will continue to do so unless he changes his diet (but again, he cannot prepare his food himself, so getting accurate counts on calories and macros are damn near impossible...)
Should I give in and try to replace squats? He also HATES lunges... so those aren't in question. Even though deads are personally my favorite lift, I could drop those, but I REALLY do not want to drop squats.
He's 54 years old, is 80% blind and comes up to me one day and asks how he can make his butt look better! (I loved it!) I promptly showed him proper squat technique and he hired me right away.
So here's the problem... I felt that he needed to develop core strength. He had pretty nice arms actually, but his shoulders are narrow, his hips are narrow, his chest was underdeveloped and his legs were scrawny... SO I put him on a 5x5 program and I have been just touching the arms to keep them up to par.
SO he calls me today... he says that squats and deads are causing him too much anxiety and he wants to quite them and change up the routine... WHAT!?
He specifically cited "wanted to work the showy muscles more" and replacing squats with leg ext/leg curls... I vehemently object to this.
Some issues I face with him is that he is blind, which causes him to walk with very stiff legs, i.e. he has extremely poor flexibility in his legs, but has been able to develop a decent squat form. Also he cannot prepare his own meals, therefore he goes to a local restaurant. He eats "healthy" in that he eats fairly low carb, but he also eats fairly low fat as well, with his diet mainly consisting of protein and vegetables, but I'm sure his macros are not ideal for seeing any serious changes and he changes his mind every couple weeks as to whether or not he wants to cut or bulk.
I really want to make him feel secure about our program and I'm all for changing up the routine. Considering he has gone from about a 95 pound squat to a 230 pound 5 rep squat in a year, a 115 pound dead, to a 215 dead, and a 135 bench to a 185 bench, the 5x5 did work for him, but he has been starting to stall on all the lifts lately, which is what is causing the insecurity. I am really having trouble busting his plateau.
We went to a push/pull/legs routine not to long ago, but that didn't really seem to help either. I have a feeling he got those initial results because he wasn't in the best of shape to begin with, but now that he has reached maximal results under his current diet, he has plateaued out and will continue to do so unless he changes his diet (but again, he cannot prepare his food himself, so getting accurate counts on calories and macros are damn near impossible...)
Should I give in and try to replace squats? He also HATES lunges... so those aren't in question. Even though deads are personally my favorite lift, I could drop those, but I REALLY do not want to drop squats.
