Originally Posted by
bikesandcars
The rate of weight jumps depends on mentality and recovery. Recovery depends on many factors including sleep, food, metabolism, hormone levels, genetics, age, etc. The point of the early jumps is to get you strong as fast as possible but the overall philosophy of SS seems to be continued progression (Even at a slow rate), so if it suit's your time frame for getting strong keep the progression vs trying to go heavy quick. As I get older I find my joints/tendons/ligaments seem to take longer to recover than the muscles. In my experience the connective tissues also take a bit longer to get up to speed especially if you are very untrained. This is just my opinion, but I would go as slow as possible because the slower you go now the longer you can train and practice form before it becomes a real grind and the better the habit of following the program will be ingrained... A year from now you will be more successful if you go slow now IMO. It will also give your connective tissues more time to catch up.