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    Default novice to intermediate question

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    Hello, I am kind of new here. I started my NLP back in August, but as someone who has been lifting weights consistently for the least 2.5 years, so I was not starting from square one. I used to always push myself on bench and overhead press, but not so much on the squat and deadlift as most people my age seem to do ( I am a college student). I seem to have stalled pretty hard on my bench and press, doing my one set of 5 then backing off for my last two sets after a few sessions of missing reps. I was just missing the last rep on my third set, and would do that weight again my next training session, but recently I started to miss reps on my second set too. After this happened I started doing back off sets (maybe I should have reset my weight 10% and worked up again, I don't know). My squat and deadlift are cruising right along which makes me think I am still eating enough food (I have been gaining weight for the past 8 weeks, and have put on ~15 pounds so far). My question is should I be looking to tweak my bench and ohp programming, reset the weight, or move to triples, or even just entirely move to an intermediate program? I am about 5' 11" and 165 pounds, 21 years old (I'm know I'm skinny, I'm working on it) squatting 270 3x5. Dl 355 x5, Bench 200x5, ohp 135x5.

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    You are not an intermediate lifter, as you will discover as you gain weight.

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