 Hey everybody I'm Lance Coyke and today I want to discuss the benefits of a very popular programming you know recommendation that people try especially people try it early on and that is five by five so five by five this means I'm doing five sets of about five reps and I'm going through it now I can make it required so that I have to get five reps and if I get five then I increase the weight and that will gradually ramp my weights up and it will challenge my strength and that is a good thing it's it's good to get stronger great benefit of five by five I could also do it where I'm not so particular about doing five reps I could say hey my target is five and if I get five then it was too light um and then I just you know I try to do five sets of five and if I can get all five sets of five reps then I move my weight up next time we talked a little bit about that in our discussion on sets across doing sets across at the same weights versus working up in weight as I go um but the you know one of the other benefits of five by five is just it's fluid like that you can you can malleate you can mold it into what you uh what you want another benefit of five by five and maybe the biggest reason that it's successful for a lot of people is it's simple it's just it's there do five by five and that's it you spend a lot of time focusing on your primary lifts your big multi-joint lifts that are going to get you a lot of bang for your buck if you have a particularly athletic background you're probably going to do really well with five by five um and you know one reason I really like it is it exposes you to heavier weights um and being stronger is is really inspiring and it's really fun to do and it'll it's likely to motivate you to continue on that's that's another good thing that I really like about it um but the biggest thing you guys it's just it's so simple you just write it down and after a while you kind of know what weight you're going to get that day um especially if you have a few days of setbacks where you haven't slept very well and you haven't been eating very well and you can't do the same amount of weight that you normally can do and then you have your good days and you say oh this is what I'm capable of blah blah blah um that is the major benefit um not everyone does that great with five by five and that's what we're going to talk about in our next video