You're taking big jumps, especially during a cut. Switch to 1.5/1kg on the bench, and 1kg on the press. And switch to 2kg on the squat.
Power clean is most likely a form issue.
I don't know what you mean by doing the deadlift and cleans only once a week. Are you alternating them with chin-ups?
Taking creatine helps you with the recovery, too.
Temporary break pertaining to my personal life and the shithole I live in. I intend to resume as soon as I am able to. I was just trying to find out what I can do to lose as little as possible during this period.
I meant I used to do deadlifts on monday and friday and pc on wednesday one week, and pc on monday and friday and deadlifts on wednesday the next week. After I started the cut I do deadlifts on monday and pc on wednesday one week, pc on monday and deadlifts on wednesday the next week. Basically the same but I removed the friday pull. In addition to those I do chinups on bench days. So twice one week and once the week after that.
I'll look into creatine, thanks.
Obviously I don't expect to add 20kgs to my ohp on a cut, I meant after I weather the storm I am currently facing in my life and resume doing the program or whatever comes next after I exhaust my LP.
I am not worried about my belly at all, if I did, I wouldn't have become a 220lbs man who is 5'7" tall in the first place. I'm worried about my bank account and the fact that the price of a kilo of chicken breast tripled in the last 6 months where I live. I'm worried about none of my clothes fitting and the fact that I'm unable to afford buying clothes that fit. And I'm worried about some other stuff I face in my life I don't care to share here at this moment of time. Is that enough or are there more provocative messages coming my way?
Ok, then look at doing a bunch of chins. If you start losing weight, they will become easier to do and you don’t even have to do them in a gym.
You certainly shouldn't have to share private details in order to get some basic advice. There are three constraints that you seem to be dealing with in various amounts. The money to buy food (which is a scary proposition), access to equipment, and time to train. Can you rank those considerations in order? It sounds like you might be on a cut because you can't buy the necessary calories. In any event, without sharing personal details that one normally wouldn't want to post publicly, if you can list the constraints you have that would make it much easier.
The advice I've seen given here when people need to cut has been to try to take weight off of the barbell *slowly*. If you fail reps, don't do a full ten percent deload/reset since that exacerbates problems. Just take a small increment off the next time that you lift. I wish I could be more helpful here.
I hope this advice works. I can't tell you how many times I've cut weight and expected my chin count to go up but it stayed stubbornly the same even as I dropped 5-10% of my body weight and expected to get a few more reps
My current financial situation is the main hinderance I face. I've always been able to make time to train one way or the other so far. And access to equipment isn't even a problem at all. My gym membership ended last week, so I went to the management and told them that I wasn't going to be able renew it at this time. But they told me they'll give me a 3 month membership free of charge. It's a small neighbourhood gym and everyone there was always telling me they were very impressed with my progress. Probably because all everyone else does is play around with machines so they're not really used to seeing people get stronger and lift heavier weights in a short span of time. I felt like they didn't want to see me go. I told them I'll pay what I owe them for these 3 months as soon as I can.
I actually got my squat up by 7.5kgs since I started the cut. Although, I switched from 3x5 to 1x5 and 2 backoff sets with 90%. I feel like it can go up a bit more too. But my upper body lifts came to a halt almost immediately.
Worst thing my body has ever had to endure.
This is the biggest problem of them all. Even when I'm not training everything is more tiring now.