Squat is stalling. Which change should I make?

[Diocide]

Hello folks.

I've been lifting for majority of my life, and in the past 3 years I was doing powerlifting training programs (mainly 531 and 5th Set.)

I picked up the Blue and Gray books a year ago and attended a local SS Squat and deadlift camp around the same time. (Thanks to Cody and Rebecca!)

In August of this year I decided to do a NLP and use the "Well Executed Novice Linear Progression" on page 90 of the gray book and an outline.

I'm 38 years old, 5-10" and weigh about 210lbs (up from 195lbs when I started 3 months ago) .

I'm on week 14 of the NLP and my squat is starting to fail.

Todays lift was 330lbs for a 3x5. I managed to get the first set of 5, and then proceeded to get 3 and 3 for the subsequent sets.

I'm thinking at this point I should change to a 3x3 or possibly the 3x5 with the 5% cut to sets 2 and 3.

Is one a better choice than the other? I can post vids if you guys think that will help.

Thanks!

[Mark Rippetoe]

Video?

[Diocide]

Here is the third set.

[Diocide]

Just for reference, here was the previous 3rd working set at 325lbs.

[Mark Rippetoe]

These squats are all above parallel, some worse than others.

[Diocide]

Fair enough. I appreciate the form check.

I will drop the weight back and focus on getting lower.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Knees out will help.

[Diocide]

I’ll focus on that.

Thanks!