Coming up on the end of SSLP?

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hello, I’m new to the forums here but have been strength training since about May of this year. I started off linear progression and have been off/on with it a couple of times. Once was due to craziness with work and second was some shoulder pain that derailed me for about 3 weeks. I’ve also had a few times where I got in my own head and said I can’t do this anymore and my mental health was a barrier for me to get in the gym to lift, so that was about a month of so of only going once a week. I’ve reset and deloaded a number of times when I wasn’t hitting reps, a lot of that was due to not eating enough, I think. I currently am hitting 200g of protein and about 3000cal/day when before I think I was getting 160g protein and about 2200-2500cal/day.

I’m 27 yo male, 150lbs body weight, 5’6". I started at 135lbs bodyweight when I began in May.

My current lifts are:
Squat 230# 3x5
Press 100# 3x5
Bench 130# 3x5
Deadlift 275# 1x5

Starting weights were:
Squat 95#
Press 45#
Bench 65#
Deadlift 135#

Upper body lifts are definitely my weak spots. I’m at the point now where I’m including a light day on Wednesday and started to introduce power clean. Am I starting to come upon the end of my noob gainz and would benefit from going to Bridge 1.0 soon? Or is there still some gains to be made from SSLP?

Thanks so much!

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I would just move on from LP right now to our Beginner Template, as I don’t see any advantages to continuing on the program. This includes resets and deloads, which don’t really help an individual response better to the program. I would prefer people change the program instead of deloading or reseting.

-Jordan

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Appreciate the response! Would you suggest starting with phase 1 or moving straight into phase 2 or 3 of the Beginner Template?

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I think either would be fine, but if forced to decide you can just start on Phase I.