Is it necessary to add accessories to SL?

>>41554469

If you want to look good, yeah it helps.

If you just want to get stronger, then not necessary no.

>>41554469
Yeah add bench and overhead as accessories to the overhead and bench days respectively

>>41554469

"Necessary"?

Only to bring up lagging areas that are holding back your progression on your lifts. (ie. for me, standing leg curls brought up hamstrings that were (apparently) what was delaying my progress).

>>41554511
What accessories can I do for OHP?

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Go look at a picture of Mehdi. Look at him. He has no arms. It looks so wrong. I used to think he looks great, and now I kinda resent him for making me waste a year on building monster quads and little else.

>>41554469

If by "add accessories" you mean "do a better routine that already has more programmed into it" then yes. Because SL is really kind of a waste of time.

>>41554552
stuck at the bottom? Incline bench, DB press, front/side db raise (shoulders are the weak point)
stuck past the bottom? overhead triceps extension, close grip bench, push press (triceps are the weak point)

>>41554552
also, general upper back work because you can't press with a weak back

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>>41554697
Not OP, but how's pic related?

>>41554687
?? I don't get it. It's a strength program for beginners, if you want aesthetics do something different.

>>41554750
seems good. honestly, the obsession about the perfect program especially here is unwarranted. Consistency is key. If you have been lifting for more than a 1-2 years, the first few weeks will seem totally irrelevant.
Learn the compound movements, go regularly, eat better, sleep enough. You will see improvements. And whether you do bicep curls after SL or not is your choice, and doing 3 sets after you're done deadlifting wont hurt you as much as Mehdi indicates.
Important is that you keep lifting.

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>>41554761
It's a strength program with excessive focus on squats. There's no denying that you'll get good at squats, but you won't get good at the other lifts with such little volume.

At a minimum everyone doing SL should add chin-ups, dips and bicep curls.

I've ran SL for almost 9 months and I can tell you that squatting 5x5 before doing other lifts will drastically reduce your capacity for those lifts.

>>41554899
what a great little cat

ffs do SS with accessories, you can find it out there somewhere (or read the book).

>>41554469
I think it is necessary to add accessory to strengthen your weakest link. After all this is why you should be hitting the gym, to eliminate weaknesses.

If it is your chest - add dips
If it is your back - add chin-ups (but after deadlift, not before)
If it is your legs - add bulgarian squat (inb4 too much work for legs - I call bullshit, I squat 3 times a week and then afterwards I always do bulgarian squat)
If it is your bicep - yep, you guessed it, add some curls.
If it is your calves - sorry, no training calves unless you're a fag