Originally Posted by
Hayden-William Courtland
It sounds like you are rushing things too much. Regardless of whether or not it's your initial NLP or a repeat LP, the prescription isn't add 5lbls to all upper lifts/10lbs to lower and DL 3x/week and then go to a 4 day split. You could do this if you last left off with a 4-day split as in that case you would be ramping yourself up to that. But since you didn't ever do that yet, you should follow the program more precisely. Upperbody lifts need to switch to 2.5lb jumps, squat needs to have an added light day, and DL needs to switch to every other session with 5lb jumps and then eventually it can be modified again possibly to 1x/week with the other day being a light pulling variant.