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Originally Posted by NU Star
Yeah, I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you're way beyond the initial period in SS where you can DL every workout. Rip warns some of overtraining, so I'd just watch out for that. I think a lot of people move to DL once a week at the point you're at. Doing every workout seems like something to do when it's still easy.
If you don't want to do chins/pullups or power clean, maybe you could alternate with halting DLs and Rack pulls. That way you keep working on DL without taxing yourself as much.
On another note, your dedication to getting to the gym puts me to shame.
I thought I responded to this a couple days ago but I guess I never did. Anyways..
Yeah I feel like every other day is way too much DLing. I feel like I can squat every other day w/o issues but I think I need at least 2 and probably more like 3-4 days rest between DLs. Perhaps even once a week but not sure. Do people that DL once/week add 5-10lbs each week?
My biggest goal right now is to get my DL up to 2x bw. I'm happy w/ a 1.5x bw squat right now (and want it to continue to go up of course) but DL is what I want to improve. So, maybe moving to twice a week or once every 4-5 days would work. I would hope that I would be able to add 10lbs every other session. Sound reasonable? If I could do that then I could get a 405lb DL in about a month.
I don't mind pullups/chins. I can do a fair amount of them. Well, I could before I started bulking. I probably can do like 70% of what I used to be able to do due to the weight gain but I haven't tried in a while.
I'm thinking of moving to a schedule like this:
Monday:
Squats
Bench Press
DL
Tuesday:
pullups
ab stuff
shoulder stuff
bis/tris
Wednesday:
Squats
OH Press
????
??
Thursday:
???
DL
???
Friday: day off
Saturday:
Squats
Bench Press
???
Sunday: day off?
I dunno, it's a work in progress. I need to figure out a schedule lol