Originally Posted by
Weiss
Yes, I saw that article linked in another recent post about the deadlift as well.
I'm male, 21, 5'9", about 135 lbs. I understand that gaining weight is part of making progress, I've gained about 5 pounds since starting three weeks ago.
On Friday I squatted 135 and attempted 200 on the deadlift, dropping the weight in 10 lb increments down to 170 before I could get it moving to complete a workset for the day. I had completed a five rep set of 190 on Monday which felt difficult, then on Wednesday I did power cleans (up to 65 lbs) for the first time in place of deadlifting. For reference, my day one workset weights were 80 on the squat and 115 on the deadlift which I progressed 10 and 15 lbs respectively for the first three jumps then 5 and 10 lbs respectively after that.