ColeTrain

I know you're a huge dog lover, even going so far as to say that people who don't like dogs can, "get fucked". I'm curious how you feel about Pits? I personally have had very little experience with them, mainly just seeing videos of them either attacking people/animals or dressed up in a tutu being extremely sweet. I know a lot of people have strong opinions about them one way or the other, so I wanted to know how you felt about them?

Mark Rippetoe

The best dog I ever had was a female pit. She was the sweetest thing who ever lived. You can make any dog into an asshole by mistreating it. Chihuahuas seem to need the least help. I don't think you'll find anyone outside the media who thinks badly of pit bulldogs.

mathgainer

It is suggested to use micro plates for the upper body lifts during the NLP, because of the slower rate of progress.

This involves weighing the plates at your gym and marking them, which is an extremely tedious endeavor. One would have to take scales with them to the gym, weight plates without looking like a weirdo, and then proceed to mark them without getting caught.

My question is, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use double progression on these lifts?

You will use a rep range that is wide enough so that, once you reach the upper end of the range for a particular weight, you are able to increase by 5lb.

For example, on the bench press you might do 3x5-8 reps. Let's say you are at 70kg and you are no longer able to increase 5 lb each workout. The sessions might go like this:

5,5,5
7,6,5
8,8,6
8,8,8

Once you reach these numbers you increase to 72.5kg.

It might look like slower progress, but you are progressing at the maximum possible rate because you are doing the reps to failure each time.

In other words, when you start 72.5kg you might actually start off with 8,6,5 for example and then only take 1-2 workouts to reach 8,8,8, before increasing by another 2.5kg.

Isn't this more convenient than weighing plates in order to use micro plates at the gym?

Mark Rippetoe

Yeah, that's fine, just do it like that, because convenience is very important.