Using your advice, I’ve gone from 150 3x5 to 162.5 5x5 while getting my bodywiefht down to 230 from 240 in that’s time. I’m 5’11”, tracking calories to 2600 and am hoping to get to 210 and see if that cures my sleep apnea.
I’m still running NLP for squats and deadlifts
For upper body I’m doing
A:
bench 5x5
press 3x8
B
Press 5x5
Bench 3x8
The last bench of 5x5 as far as RPE felt 8,8.5,9,9.5,9.5
i feel like I’m getting close to failure.
My first question is is simple and maybe a generalizable point. Is it better to switch to the bridge now or try a few more workouts at this current programming until failure.
My second question?
If I personally feel I need more bench volume than the average person, how could I modify the bridge to best accommodate this?
I can’t tell you the “correct” answer here, because I can’t see your bench sets to really know how close you are to failure. Either way will likely not make a huge difference in the long run.
While you may be correct, I’d just run the program as written first (it’s only 8 weeks after all), and decide on programming changes to make from there based on how you respond.
I have a similar concern to the OP.
I will start the Bridge soon but so far had great progress on my bench using 6 programming slots a week dedicated to bench (& variations), and about 9 sets of bench per training session; the Bridge only has 3 or 4 bench (& variations) slots and much less total amount of sets/reps compared to what i’m doing currently.
I’m really nocebo’ing myself about my bench tanking on the bridge, so should I modify anything or just go ahead and see what happens by lowering the volume as prescribed by the Bridge?