Am I doing something wrong?

Hello! I have not been making much progress lately and i’d like to request a sanity check to see if I am doing anything incorrectly in terms of load selection, warm up, etc.
Relevant info:
Male, 24, 194lbs, 36" waist, Height: 5"9, Currently losing about -1.5lbs a week eating around 2k cals per day, and average 140g of protein per day.
(This diet has only been the past 4 weeks ish.)

History:
Training for multiple years, but had many layoffs in the past. Most relevant recent training has been two years of, beginner template then the powerbuilding templates (1 and 2).

  • I stopped making progress in the past couple months of powerbuilding, and wanted to focus on strength more again.

I am finishing up week 4 of the low fatigue strength template, and have not really made progress I don’t think. I saw Jordan say that having near the same weights week to week, is usually a red flag, and I believe that is the situation I find myself in. I am going to info dump my sessions & warmups if that is ok.

My question is; is there any obvious errors in how i am going about loading and increasing here? - Generally i get up to a backoff set, do it, and judge if i should go for an increase on the top set or not based off of that.

Low ISF - 3 day (Weights used are in LBS) - all warmups are included. if there isn’t a warmup listed, then i didnt do any. (Mostly exercise #3). Left out the supplement exercises as those are less relevant (i think)

Sorry for so much to look at! lol I don’t expect you to read it all. It is all good if you don’t have the time. I just like to provide as much detail as I can. Thanks a lot, and hope you are having a good day!

What happens when you try to add weight to the bar?

I don’t say that sarcastically. Rather, the “indicator set” you’re using may no be giving you the feedback you need. My go-to is that if the indicator set feels “normal”, e.g. not harder than last week or bad in some other sense, I’m going up in weight.

I do think repeating the weight week to week is a red flag, as it is highly unlikely your performance is the same week. Some weeks it’ll be up, some weeks it’ll be down, and everything in between.

Tl;dr I would plan on adding weight if your planned back off set feels fine during your warm up.

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Gotcha, ill give that a try! Thanks.