dakotajones
I play D2 College football (Running back). I've been "lifting" for years but never made much progress until I stumbled upon your work last year. My numbers are as follows:
My goal is to perform really well this season, transfer to D1 next year, and then make the NFL. I'm less athletic than the average NFL running back but I feel like I can get a lot stronger and that can be my x factor. There's not a whole lot of time, so I'm wondering if there is any way I can increase my squat and deadlift in season, and what programming for that would look like. I believe your current suggestion is just to squat and deadlift once a week (or is it alternating weeks?) But I feel like I could probably squat 2x/week (Monday Volume Squat + Powercleans, Thursday Intensity Squat) and continue my linear progression like that and maybe just don't deadlift at all.
Thoughts?
Mark Rippetoe
You can train 2x/week in-season -- if you'll eat. At 5'9" you need to weigh 240-245. You'll be very hard to handle at that bodyweight with a 550 squat and a 600 deadlift.
keiithg8
Hey Rip, it has probably been answered before, but what are the best sets of 5 you have seen from someone on the NLP?
Squats in the 500s, presses in the 200s, benches in the high 300s, deadlifts in the high 500s.
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