The '3 to 5' concept for strength training involves 3-5 days per week, 3-5 exercises per session, 3-5 reps per set, 3-5 total sets, and 3-5 minutes rest between sets.

“Choose 3-5 exercises Do 3-5 reps Do 3-5 sets Take 3-5 min rest Repeat 3-5 times per week”

“So a way to just think about a really fast answer for power, well speed, power and strength, is what I just call the three to five concept.”

“So pick three to five exercises. If you're feeling better that day, choose on the higher end. If you're feeling less that day, or you have a shorter timeframe to train, go less. So this would be three sets, or three exercises rather, or five exercises the most. So three to five exercises. Do three to five reps, three to five sets, take three to five minutes rest in between, and do it three to five times a week.”

“I'm going to pick three to five exercises and these should be compound exercises so multi-joint movements I'm going to perform those exercises for three to five repetitions each I'm going to do three to five movements total per workout and I'm going to rest three to five minutes between STS okay if I'm training for power the weight load on the work set so not the warm-up sets but the work sets are going to fall somewhere in the range of 30 to 70% of my one repetition maximum”

“the general number we're going to look at here is something like three to 20 sets total per workout per workout — but that would be like 20 would be a little bit of a special case three to five is what I told you earlier right”

“if you do that all you need to do is slightly increase the load um or the volume but mostly the load over time and the number we want to look for there is something like a 3 to 5% increase per week”

“so if you land on that that allows you to run the gamut from as little as three days a week you're doing a three exercises you're do three sets of three which is a very very low volume it's a a very low amount of days easy to handle all the way to five sets of five of five exercises five days a week”

“no you you can certainly do that in combination with anything else you would like especially if you think about speed and power those are very nonfatiguing and so if you could imagine uh you're going to go to the beach and you're going to take a 10 lb to 20 lb medicine ball with you and you're going to do you know four different exercises where you're throwing the medicine ball as high as you can in the air four times in a row taking a break and you do two or three HS that you do maybe three or four different types of throws um that's very good for improving power extremely good but it's not very fatiguing so you could certainly finish that workout in 20 minutes and then run on and then do any number of other things so you could do um some high-intensity anerobic capacity work you could do steady state stuff you could you could even do hypertrophy on top of that”

“is quite effective for a very long time and this has been um tested quite extensively in in both the coaching Realms as well as the scientific Realms to be um quite productive and and easy to follow and grasp”

“there was a description of a terrific program for strength, which is the three by five program, or three to five program, as it's called, which is to select three to five exercises performed for three to five repetitions three to five times per week with three to five minutes rest in between those exercises.”

“I'm certainly going to implement the 3 to five program that you describ um 3 to five exercises done for 3 to five repetitions 3 to 5 minutes between sets uh you're doing this three to five times per week and so on and so forth”

“The 3 by 5 protocol is very straightforward. It involves doing three to five exercises per workout. OK. So if it's a workout for legs, it's three to five exercises. If it's a workout for some upper body muscle, it's three to five exercises. Three to five exercises for 3 to 5 sets per exercise, 3 to 5 repetitions per set, and 3 to 5 minutes of rest between each set.”

“A really fast answer is what I just call the three to five concept. All right? So, pick three to five exercises. If you're feeling better that day, choose on the higher end. If you're feeling less that day or you have a shorter time frame to train, go less. So, three to five exercises. Do three to five reps, three to five sets. Take three to five minutes rest in between and do it three to five times a week.”

“it can take you as low as three days a week you're going to do three exercises for three sets of three now the intensity has got to be high Y it's got to be a lot of load right it can take you all the way to five days a week five exercises five sets of five and that volume is going to be really taxing”

“so again since we're in powerlifting and since we're in strength that 3 to five only works though if you're loading that heavy y if you're going light that's not it's not going to work”

“you could you could answer this whole Matrix for strength with just this thing called three to five so the three to five concept 3 to five days per week 3 to five exercises 3 to five reps per set three to five total sets and then three to five minutes rest between each set”