To all at BBM. Thank you for providing The Bridge 1.0. After spending months and months, probably close to a year running SSNLP, back and forth, reset after reset trying to claw my way through workouts just to add weight to the bar, that now just seem unproductive in that reps are missed regularly and training kind of sucked. Just done day 1 on The Bridge 1.0, and the RPE is a godsend. Still alot of work to do on mastering this skill but going to the gym and getting good reps in without feeling like i’ve been smashed by a bus is great. My form on the Squat goes out the window over 105kg so i’m really looking forward to using the Pause-squats and Tempo-squats to really iron out any form issues and make progress alot smoother over the long term. Its took me a while to finally just say “enough is enough” with LP because my lifts aren’t exactly HUGE, (YET!) and i was skeptical with RPE, but grinding rep after rep x3 days per week isn’t good for my body. So this is just a big thank you to guys at BBM for putting out a smarter, more productive way of training and i am now looking forward to next training day rather than wondering will i get my Squat, Bench, or Deadlift? Will i come through it without an injury. Thank you guys. Keep up the great work, helping us work smarter, for the long haul with the great content.
Thank you! Glad to hear it. Good luck.
Hey Austin, quick question regarding The Bridge. Are all other lifts except the main lifts done beltless? I pretty much used the belt for everything on SSNLP. I think doing things this way has made me rely on the belt too much and while performing rack pulls i left it off thus my lower back got pretty pumped with some relatively light weights.
This sounds rather familiar!
I’ve “been on the LP” for over a year myself, although every time I got over bodyweight with squats I started to have tendon problems, when my press got to 50 Kg I got tendon problems, when my bench got etc etc you get the picture.
As a result I found this place, and I’m currently doing higher volume/lower weights over a 12 week period, increasing intensity and dropping volume as I go. However, I’m 44 and I really do seem to have caught a bit more tendon trouble than I would have liked.
So I’m very tempted to go in the RPE direction- it makes far more sense to train that way as I don’t need to be anywhere quickly, I just love the slow steady progress and the improvements in my health and wellbeing I have gained, even with my patchy LP.
Like the original poster, there is a little bit of me that wants that steady LP to hefty numbers and bigger trousers, I haven’t had the opportunity to do a lot of “grinding” (and when I did I often ended up getting crocked) but I suspect it may well be my ego talking and I’m happy to forego all that if you guys suspect I’d be doing the right thing to commence the Bridge when my tendon rehab is over.