30yrs, Billstar 5x5 and F1+H1.. bad idea?

Hi guys.

I'm a new entry here!

I'm Rudy, from Italy, 30 years old.

I've been training in various sports since I was 14 (mainly weightlifting with a blend of martial arts, volleyball, basketball and yoga).

I've been working as a personal trainer (I prefer to call myself movement teacher) for about 7 years and I think to have a fairly decent basic body awareness (given mainly by yoga). I'm not a bodybuilder and I usually train with a routine called Bill Starr 5x5 (atm I've been using a variation by Stronglifts since I'm rehabbing from a knee surgery).

After many years, I simply find attractive the idea of switching things up a bit a start a structured gymnastic/acrobatic protocol.

Since I'm completely unaware of the workload of a beginner combo like F1+H1 I just wanted to ask you guys if, in your opinion, that could be done together with a 3 days a week weightlifting routine (basically I just work on squats, deadlifts, pendlay rows, bench and overhead press).

I'm very open minded so please feel free to tell me whatever suggestion you feel adequate.

I'm at a point where I simply want to have fun, have a playful but rigorous approach to training. I'm obviously not here to compete or such.

Many thanks

Rodolfo

Not productively: doing two strength routines at a time just makes both routines stagnate. For comparison, imagine if you just did double the volume of the billstar routine - that would be a disaster.

If you want to do some weightlifting alongside Foundation that's fine, but keep the volume and intensity low.

I'd put weightlifting on the back burner. Unless you were working on retaining the motor skills for squats and such. F1 and h1 are fairly difficult if your completely new to it. Its a complete strength a d mobility program on its own. The most common suggestion I see here is do your F1 h1 work first then if you still have energy you can try weightlifting. I'm not that strong yet but I find just supporting myself in the stretches from the stretch course difficult after f1 so I can't imagine trying to weight lift after.

Benvenuto!

Since you recently had a knee surgery I'm pretty sure that focusing on the SLS progression from F1 will work great for reconditioning all of the connective in your knees (as well as your ankles)! If I were you I would probably put weights on the side for a while and see how it goes. The general recommendation that I've been reading around here is to wait until you finish F2 and only then start working with weighted squats again.

Hope this is helpful

Thanks guys, grazie Edoardo!

 

I think I'll cut the volume then to 1 day a week of 5x5 and 3 days of gymnastics and see how it goes!!

Sounds like a good start to me

Just remember to listen to your body. If something is too much, do it less. If you're consistently "jumping at the gate" before your workouts, you might play with adding volume.

Also, keep your personal goals in mind. If you're not moving towards them, you need to change something.