Hey all,
Recently moved from Starting Strength NLP to the Barbell Prescription Beginner Template.
35 years old
5’10
255lbs
Orangeville Ontario, Canada
Coming off recently running SS NLP. Attempted to “Do The Program” 3 times over 2 years. Longest stretch I made it was 8 weeks until the fatigue and stress built up so much that I didn’t want to keep training. So I didn’t touch the barbell any time I wasn’t doing SS. I now realize that consistently reaching RPE 9-10 isn’t the smartest way to progress your lifts.
Sets of 5 results of NLP from the start to where I just finished a week ago.
Squat 225 to 410
Bench 155 to 220
Press 95 to 160
Deadlift 225 to 435
Power Cleans 110 to 210 (sets of 3)
Now a week into the Beginner Prescription and will log the workouts below.
This was the first full week. A big volume adjustment but really enjoyed the change. RPE seems very intelligent and effective as well. I’m glad I didn’t listen to the BS argument that it’s too complicated for novices to use. This makes the most sense to me for long term and lifetime training.
My training partner started feeling injured in the squats so we decided to scrap the planned training and do some heavy bench singles.
I hit 225x5 which is a PR 5 rep work set and ended up with 265x1 after failing an attempt at 270. I previously had failed 220x5x3 when attempting SSNLP.
BBM programming with the extra bench volume and sub maximal loads has been working really well.
Purchased Powerbuilding 1 and plan to move into the program shortly.
Set 6: 395 lb × 6 @ 7
Set 7: 405 lb × 6 @ 8
Set 8: 420 lb × 6 @ 9
(e1RM 515)
Overhead Press (Barbell)
Set 6: 155 lb × 6 @ 7
Set 7: 160 lb × 6 @ 8
Set 8: 165 lb × 6 @ 9
(e1RM 200)
Romanian Deadlift (Barbell)
Set 6: 205 lb × 10 @ 7
Set 7: 215 lb × 10 @ 8
Set 8: 225 lb × 10 @ 9
(e1RM 315)
BW 267
The goal is to lose a significant amount of body weight until April next year. Hoping that running this program helps maintain my current strength levels or I can still have improvements.