Couple questions about NLP after a bit of a layoff

[Maybach]

So I said I’m going to take the rest of the year to lift, and I’ll spar a couple times a month to shake the rust off.

You said you were focusing on lifting. That's what I based my responses on. Y

A reset this aggressive is never warranted. A 135 bench is doing exactly nothing for you. It is a waste of time. It is not going to "maintain" anything, except for a mid 100s bench.

The NLP is not for putting lifts "on maintenance." If your priority is "maintenance of lifts during an aggressive cut", then you are not doing anything that would be recognizable as an NLP. That's the advice.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Ya 8 weeks to drop to 189 is grand. And, if it’s a struggle, I’ll just have to make do at 200.

It wasn’t the cut that did me in, that was fine and successful, it was the work, life, and financial stress on top that burned me out. That and that I didn’t take a diet break like I should have.

Ya I started light, at
155 squat
95 press
245 deadlift
135 bench.

Now at as of tomorrow, and Monday for press
245 squat
160 bench
345 deadlift
120 press.

All of which easy, except annoyingly the press, which in the past used to fly up.

Couple questions about NLP after a bit of a layoff