Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Looking for advice to fix large difference between upper and lower body strength

[23, male, 82kg]

Background

Hey all, so my story is that about a year and a half ago I was at about 110kg and decided to lose a lot of weight. My two sisters and their husbands at the time were doing crossfit and talked me in to joining as it was cheaper than a gym membership (about $15 dollars a week). I dropped a lot of weight (down to about 90kg) after about 3 months however from that point on I have had a fairly unfocused approach to development. I would do the wod of the day and ate when I was hungry without paying much attention.

The problem

Because my gym was quite spartan in its equipment we were mainly focused on olympic lifts, front and back squats, deadlifts and pull-ups (yes kipping, no I haven't had an arm fall off... yet).

Because of this I now find myself at a new gym which is much better equipped, however I have a fairly extreme imbalance between upper and lower body strength. I have found that I fit in somewhere between intermediate and advanced strength for legs, core, back and forearms, just above novice for shoulders and novice for chest and arms.

Stats

1RM Back squat - 145kg

1RM Front squat - 125kg

1RM Deadlift - 175kg

5RM Bench press - 55kg

5RM Overhead press - 42.5kg

My question

I want to start bulking and building muscles, but Strong Lifts seems like it will be extremely taxing when doing the heavy squats 3 times a week for 5 sets. 531 BBB sounds like a much better option to me just from reading it, but everywhere I have read online notes that it is for intermediate lifters.

So what should I do? Should I do 531 but at a lesser weight and possibly delay progress on chest and arms while further promote imbalances? Or should I do SL and just push through the squats? Or is there a better option out there?

Thanks for any help.

TL:DR Need to know if SL or 531 is better for correcting strength imbalance between upper and lower body.

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