ICF

Yes, it's too much volume to be sustainable without gear.

It's a good well rounded program for beginners and novices, designed to give a solid strength base as well as muscle.

I wouldn't recommend squatting 5x5 3 times a week for a newbie, though.

>>42052979
Not OP but I also use ICF, should I lower the sets of squats to 3x5? What do you think anon.

>>42052979
What about taking squats down to 3x5?

>>42052998
I am only hesitant about it because if newbies do not have proper form, which 99.9% of them don't, suddenly squatting 3x a week with bad form can potentially do damage.

Personally, I would limit it to squatting twice a week.

Just my opinion.

>>42052953
i did it for a long time. good program but you will be in the gym atleast 90mins per session. ur legs will get heug squatting every session tho. i personally don't care about having huge legs as much as upper body so i dropped squats down to every other session and added more upper body stuff instead

For someone who's cutting is throwing in some type of cardio on off days a good idea?

Jason Blahahaha

>>42053073
yes

It's Stronglifts 5x5 with accessories. Calling it "ICF" is a meme. All Blaha did was ripoff Stronglifts and add accessories without any consideration for effective programming.