Originally Posted by
AB2303
Hi everyone. Was hoping to get some guidance. I have been on the NLP for about 3 months now, made some good strength gains, so I am happy.
I have recently turned my garage into a gym and bought calibrated plates etc.
I was training at another facility before who only had bumper plates and plastic plates to train with.
I found that the calibrated plates are much heavier and now my previous numbers feel impossible.
Am I crazy or could this be a thing?
I took my lifts down by 10% just for some room to play with and build up again from there and was going to count it as a reset?
Not sure if this is the best way to go about so was hoping someone could point me in the right direction?
The other question I have is related to my NLP. My stats and numbers as follows:
Male Age 31, BW 235lbs. Started at 220lbs.
Squat 320
Bench 235
Deadlift 400
Press 155
My recovery is really starting to struggle now especially doing 3 x Squat sessions per week doing 3 x 5. To the point where my glutes feel like they are going to break off the day after and I obviously do not want to get injured.!
About 2 weeks ago (before starting at my own place), I have changed the program to include Mon: Back ext Wed: Deadlift and Friday: Power Cleans just to help the recovery a bit, but didn't seem to have helped much though which led me to believe its the squats thats killing me.
I was hoping to change my squats to HLM to help aid recovery.
I am definitely eating and sleeping enough. I eat about 3500 cal per day and my protein ranges between 220-240 g per day.But I still feel like I am not recovering and I feel wrecked after every training session.
I do not want to change too many things at a time so please help me out here.
If someone tells me that this is normal then by all means I will push through so just want to get some personal insights from you guys.
Thanks