If he wants to try HST, it may be a pretty good idea. The 5 x 5 has already given him a pretty solid strength gain. If he uses those strength gains for a higher rep hypertrophy focused program, it might work for him.

Personal preference i guess. For me, i customized my 5 x 5 and am making solid strength gains, maybe he might need something different.

This post has been edited by darklight79: Dec 4 2006, 12:51 PM

I would suggest you do incline benching on Fridays, move the overhead press to Wednesdays and flat bench press on mondays. The side lateral raises are not meant for reps of 3 as they are an isolation exercise and are not suitable for strength attempts but more suitable for high reps. I'd go for a 3 x 10 for those. Do them on the same day as military presses.
And as for rows and pull ups, it's a matter of preference. You found rows weird when i trained with you few weeks ago right? You might opt to do vertical pulling more than once a week but that's your choice.
Your rep ranges are all very low, which of course is no problem but you might want to consider adding in an RE (Repetitive Effort) day for one of your workouts, something like 3 x 8, or 3 x 10, or 4 x 10 or whatever you prefer. It's good to get the hypertrophy beneifts of high rep ranges if you know what i mean.

Benching a 100 is easy. It's like light repping for endurance.