My big issue and concern is am I training enough. The most days i can get to the gym is 4 days a week. I am a husband, father, part-time student, and I work a physically demanding job 6 days a week usually. I am currently on the 3rd week of The Bridge and I feel better than things I’ve been trying in the past. I have modified it just because of time issues. I might super set my stuff with pull ups, weighted dips, and core variations. Then I might do some conditioning like a row machine in the end. The fourth day I dedicate to the prescribed GPP. My question is this: Can i make continual strength gains only lifting three days a week? The three day lifting has helped with my recovery due to my very physical job.
Yes? No? Maybe? These things are highly individual. No one can tell you how your unique body will adapt over time, especially with no knowledge of your training history.
I’d suggest that working a physically demanding job means that you can probably avoid doing some of the GPP (e.g. the cardio). Given that The Bridge 1.0 is a three-day (M/W/F) program with GPP in some off days, it should fit your schedule as described. As to “continual progress”: remember that a big point of using RPE is to auto-regulate your own training stress. If you’re fresh and hungry for it, go hard. If you’re sleep-deprived and coming off a long work shift, adjust the weight.
At the time I moved from a 3-day NLP to The Bridge, I certainly made a bunch of new progress. Will I continue to be able to progress, while only training M/W/F? Not forever.