when to move on from LP?

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Apologies if this has been covered. If you can direct to where its been covered, I’d love to see it.

I had no access to barbells for the first few months of COVID, but finally scrounged up some equipment in July and started training again. With a a break for a vacation, I’ve been running LP since late july. and now am damn near close to maxing out. Most of my top sets are RPE 10, in that I couldn’t do another rep, BUT i have been and likely still can keep putting a little bit of weight on the bar. Should I keep pushing higher? I know I can keep putting a bit of weight on the bar.
Age: 53
Height 6’
Weight 240. (yeah, i’m fat)

Recent 5RMs:
Sq: 335. (all time 1RM: 410)

Bn: 215 (all time 1RM 255)
Pr: 153. (all time 1RM 175)

DL: 425. (all time 1RM 505)

I’ve been adding 1-5lbs to my lifts 1ce or 2ce a week. Should I push these til failure or close to it? Or should I switch to The Bridge now in order to avoid creating too much fatigue or risking injury?

Thanks and HUGE apologies if this has been covered.

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I would move on from LP right now, as there aren’t any benefits to staying on it. In truth, it matters very little (read: not at all) if you can add another 5, 10, or even 20lbs to your 5 rep (or any rep) max efforts in the next few weeks or months from a strength development perspective, as you have many, many years to train and make progress. In short, who cares what you squat in the next month when you’ll be repping that in a year…provided you don’t take the SS off ramp and keep repeating the same demonstrably ineffective (at this point) program over and over and over again.

I’d also encourage you to put more emphasis on weight loss than what your 5RM is at this point and get your waist circumference under 37" before you worry about squatting 405 x 5.

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Awesome. Thank you so much.

I was thinking I could really push 1RMs over the next 6mos to a year by adding as much weight as possible to my 5RMs now as I’m still getting back into training and fatigue hasnt built up so much. Also, I find that lifting really heavy drives hypertrophy more in the short term for me than volume at 70-80%.

But I like your guidance…will follow!

Thanks!