Help me progress!

[just t]

First post.

Basically ive been following madcow's intermediate 5x5 spreadsheet and am currently in week 8, so i have beaten my previous pb's.

Gone from:
90kg bodyweight to 100kg
100x5 bench to 110x5 (with more in the tank)
115x5 squat (pathetic) to 125x5 (with abit more in the tank)
and 185x5 to 200x5 deadlift

I feel my deadlift and military pressing will stall very soon but my benching and squatting is feeling strong still. I plan on competing in powerlifting eventually, i understand this routine is not specifically pl based but its helping my base strength get up to par. What should i do? start the routine again, re enter my new 5rm's and work up again? should i try a new routine or variation of this? should i restart deads and military press and continue with squats and bench till i stall?

Thanks for your time

 

[StuWard]

Once you stall, reset once or twice on the specific exercises, not all the way back though, just 1-2 weeks. It wouldn't hurt to take a week completely off if you're stalling on more than one, you might be overtraining. Then start looking at going to advanced methods. Go these sites:
http://www.elitefts.com/
http://drsquat.com/home/index.php

Read everything there. Pick the brains of the guys on their forums. It's unbelieivable what you'll learn.

Stu

 

[Hybridtheory2o]

Sooner or later there is gunna come a time when you must devise your own training and splits and almost every time you go in the gym you are doing something different whether that means different order or rep speed or just anything that could possibly throw your body off but dont be dumb about it. Programs like these are great to introduce you into the weight room as they provide structure for you to follow and show you how to learn some discipline. You wouldnt be this productive if you were to just simply go into a gym and wing it. But like I said there must come a time when you do what I stated above and the gains may be less dramatic and may not come as fast but they never do once you become seasoned whether you compete or not.

Bodybuilding is hard and there is so much to learn it seems endless and thats the beauty of it!

 

[Hybridtheory2o]

One of the most beautiful things about the human body is change. It can grow and adapt to stimulants so wonderfully and what else is more fun? Being able to transform youself from either larger and i guess fat or small and puny to an amazing creature with beast like size that doesnt seem imaginable by the ordinary person. With that you must learn to keep your body guessing so it keeps adapting. When your body keeps adaping its growing larger,more defined, more muscle maturity as you age,thicker muscles etc etc. If you dont keep it guessing you stall like you are now and you just basically end up maintaining.

 

[just t]

thanks for the input, i was thinking that steward take it easy for afew weeks and rebuild it again, basically restarting the routine.

Hybrid thanks for your input also but im more geared towards powerlifting,