Drs.,
I have enjoyed your forum posts, blog, videos and podcasts. I'm a month shy of 53 and I'm 38 workouts into the novice LP (started mid Sept, nearly 15 week in, so a bit behind the 3/week rate but never less than 2/week) .
I've taken a relatively conservative approach to the weight addition with 5 /lbs for Squats, 10 lbs for Deadlifts, 2.5 lbs for BP and 2lbs for Press with some adjustments/jumps here and there when it felt right. In response to accumulated fatigue, I did a light week on squats & deads for workouts (32,33,34).
At that point, I also switched to a modified schedule of Squats M-F and Deads on Wednesday with the Benches and Presses alternating MWF. On Fridays I do power snatches. I did this as I found that once my squats and deads approached 300lbs I had a hard time doing both on the same day and was really fried the next day. Following the light week I came back and resumed the LP (i.e, I did not reset ) This seems to be a sustainable plan. I'm not missing any reps on this whereas I missed reps and lost form on deads on the two workouts proceeding the light week. Another important change post light week is that I found a gym with round plates vs 12 sided IronGrip plates that make deads a nightmare. Much better.
Here are my numbers (lbs)
5'7, 200-205 lbs up from 195 lbs
Squat Start 135 Current 3x5 305
Dead Start 155 Current 1x5 325
BP Start 155 Current 3x5 195
Press Start 85 Current 3x5 122
The workouts are still not into grind or miss mode so I'm inclined to keep enjoying the steady novice progression. Do you see any reason to adjust at this point? My primary training goal is just increasing strength.
Cheers,
Scott
I have enjoyed your forum posts, blog, videos and podcasts. I'm a month shy of 53 and I'm 38 workouts into the novice LP (started mid Sept, nearly 15 week in, so a bit behind the 3/week rate but never less than 2/week) .
I've taken a relatively conservative approach to the weight addition with 5 /lbs for Squats, 10 lbs for Deadlifts, 2.5 lbs for BP and 2lbs for Press with some adjustments/jumps here and there when it felt right. In response to accumulated fatigue, I did a light week on squats & deads for workouts (32,33,34).
At that point, I also switched to a modified schedule of Squats M-F and Deads on Wednesday with the Benches and Presses alternating MWF. On Fridays I do power snatches. I did this as I found that once my squats and deads approached 300lbs I had a hard time doing both on the same day and was really fried the next day. Following the light week I came back and resumed the LP (i.e, I did not reset ) This seems to be a sustainable plan. I'm not missing any reps on this whereas I missed reps and lost form on deads on the two workouts proceeding the light week. Another important change post light week is that I found a gym with round plates vs 12 sided IronGrip plates that make deads a nightmare. Much better.
Here are my numbers (lbs)
5'7, 200-205 lbs up from 195 lbs
Squat Start 135 Current 3x5 305
Dead Start 155 Current 1x5 325
BP Start 155 Current 3x5 195
Press Start 85 Current 3x5 122
The workouts are still not into grind or miss mode so I'm inclined to keep enjoying the steady novice progression. Do you see any reason to adjust at this point? My primary training goal is just increasing strength.
Cheers,
Scott
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