Q concerning Rotating LP

[Bradley Gish]

I’ve had several weeks of good progress with 8’s on all of the lifts. This past week I reached a peak on 8’s where I actually “blew them out”. True RMs. I’ve noticed that I’ve had trouble sleeping since this, and this week I only managed 6 reps for my PR and DL. Is it acceptable to drop down 2 rep increments? Or is this an indication that an intensity driven program might not be ideal for me? I was really shooting for 7’s, but it just wasn’t happening. Was considering re-setting and running Ed Coan’s program template, which is similar to the Rotating LP, but a bit more periodized. If Baker or anyone else who has experience with these type of cycles has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Additional info:

34
6’0
235

Most recent/relevant PRs:

SQ
410x8

PR
153x8

DL
485x8

[Erik Y]

Since no one’s chimed in, I’ll respond, as a much weaker trainee.

You might have just waited too long to switch out to sevens. I’ve made this mistake a few times. If you can hit 410 for 8, it stands to reason that 415 for 7 is not out of reach - that’s literally a 1% increase. But you’re probably in too much of a recovery deficit to hit it right now.

The last time this happened to me, taking a couple of extra days off and resuming my training with the weights I had already programmed was enough to get me back on track, but I wasn’t doing such high numbers for such high reps, so I can’t say how much time you would need to get your recovery out of the hole.

Just my two cents. Would be great to hear someone more experienced weigh in.

[Bradley Gish]

Thanks for chiming in Erik. Had a conversation with coach Baker on another site and he recommended maybe pulling heavy every other week ( going all out) for the DL. As for my press,I changed it back to more of a TM approach. Don’t think that I was able to create enough stress by just touching it once a week, and my press isn’t terribly strong. I posted this prior to the sticky posted by Andy Baker. I don’t want to confuse other members with questions about this somewhat “unorthodox “ training program, but the Rotating LP is mentioned in Barbell Prescription.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Bradley - I was more talking about my paid programs. Rotating LP is pretty common way to train, but yeah, the reason I didn't respond was because we had already discussed on Facebook.