My advice would be for you to start here:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=712752

Bust your a$$ on that program, eat well, rest well and you will definitely see results.

Any questions feel free to ask, I was on the program myself as well.

1. Little over 3 months

2. No I didn't, replaced them with rows instead

3. 10kg. Went from 65kg-75kg

4. I don't really know to be honest, but I had friends who saw me right before I started the program, and the next time they saw me was right after I was done, they said I looked much more muscular

5. No, because if I do calves then it affects my running. I'm a football player, so mon wed fri were rippetoes days then tues and thurs was endurance training days

6. I stopped because of two reasons, I found it almost impossible already to keep adding weights to front squats. When I first started I was struggling to get 40kg x 3. I ended with 65kg x 5. The second reason was because I felt very tired. Note that I did this program while i was on a complete holiday with nothing to worry about, I practically woke up, eat, trained, eat and and slept in that order. First two months were good, but by the 3rd month I was struggling and I knew I couldn't keep this up anymore. I switched to Westside for Skinny Ba$tards.

Just a note, I did front squats in place of back squats because I had a rotator cuff tear from some time ago which made it painful to do back squats. I also did incline dumbbell bench press in place of the bench press. I also did pullups and chinups after each workout. Also on tuesdays and thursdays i was doing quite a strenous endurance training regime.

My initial goal was just to gain as much strength as possible, I didn't expect much gains in size, but boy was I wrong.

All the best with your Rippetoes routine. Feel free to ask any questions.

This post has been edited by Desvaro: Jun 26 2009, 12:55 AM