Hey Doctors,
I shut down entirely last year and stopped training altogether. Coming back I didn’t expect to stall so quickly. My old numbers (about 2 years of training):
Squat: 450lb
Bench: 250lb
Dead: 600lb
I’ve stalled on most lifts at this point, nowhere near where I first slowed down as a beginner. For example my day 1 bench for 10 has been stuck at 135 (or below) for two weeks. I’m also feeling kind of beat up, or worn out. The first three weeks I felt amazing.
I’m simultaneously losing weight and that’s going well. I started at 248 and I’m down to 241 in that 5 week span. I’m not hungry and adherence to my new eating habits has been a surprisingly low RPE.
One thing I’m doing that’s not in the template is decently long walks/hikes, 4 to 6 miles every day, at around an 8 RPE. Is it possible these plus the weight loss are leading to the stalled lifts? Should I drop the walks and go with the prescribed steady state cardio? Or should I move on to phase 2 after finishing this week out? Part of me wants to try one more phase 1 week to see if I can push past this.
Thank you for all the amazing work you do,
Gabriel