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BiggT
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Can you make progress on the beginner or intermediate or whatever you were doing? Advanced isn't better, but it is unfortunately necessary to keep progressing after a certain point.....it doesn't matter how long you've been training or what your lifts are, if you can progress on something simpler, don't change it.
Kabeetz
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babaa said:
Don't worry, you will. If you don't its because either
a) You overestimated how strong u were to start and should decrease the weights
or
b) You're not eating enough
Only other variables effort and halfway decent form. Based on your log my guess is you'd have to add about 50 american pounds of muscle and double all your lifts before you consider the advanced. Strength devlopment is a logn term evolution it's not a quick transition.
Unfortunately
Cynical Simian
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Lift numbers and size have absolutely nothing to do with which program you should do; how fast you can make progress is what defines your training level. I really doubt that, after one run of the linear 5x5, you aren't still capable of making weekly progress.
But the above was probably a bunch of wasted keystrokes, since every douche sees the word 'advanced' next to a program equates it with 'better' and thinks "Hey, I've been reading Flex and using hardcore training methods like supersets and pre-exhaustion for a year and a half, I must be advanced."
But the above was probably a bunch of wasted keystrokes, since every douche sees the word 'advanced' next to a program equates it with 'better' and thinks "Hey, I've been reading Flex and using hardcore training methods like supersets and pre-exhaustion for a year and a half, I must be advanced."
Kabeetz
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babaa said:
restarting the program includes a deload since u're not supposed to hit your current maxes until the 4th week. So lets say you can bench 135 pounds, you would work do week 1 maybe 120, week 2 125, week 3 130, week4 135... (it would actually be less each week if you were microloading but whatever...), and then u progressed 5 pounds a week until you stalled at 185.
You would restart the program by doing 170 week 1, 175 week 2, 180 week 3, 185 week 4, and then slingshot forward... and on and on.
Cynical Simian
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It depends on how fatigued you are. Unless you pushed way too far (e.g., training two weeks past when your squat and dead stalled and beginning to regress) the single-factor 5x5's rampup should be enough of a deload since you're only doing one working set for each lift.
You're not eating enoughKabeetz said:Don't worry, you will. If you don't its because either
a) You overestimated how strong u were to start and should decrease the weights
or
b) You're not eating enough
Only other variables effort and halfway decent form. Based on your log my guess is you'd have to add about 50 american pounds of muscle and double all your lifts before you consider the advanced. Strength devlopment is a logn term evolution it's not a quick transition.
Unfortunately
