Is this the end of linear progression?

[unruhschuh]

Hi Mark,

I'm ~20 weeks into SS. Progress slowed down very much. The last few weeks I did the advanced novice program with light squats on wednesday. It feels like I'm running into a wall. I either can't make the next load step or I get shoulder/knee pain and have to rest for a week. Am I already approaching intermediate status or do you think there's something wrong?

I eat around 400-500gr of meat or fish a day, with veggies and pasta or potatoes. I drank 2-3 litres of milk a day but cut this down a little since I'm getting fat. If theres cake, I eat cake.

Currently I'm taking a week off due to massive shoulder pain, probably bursitis (I had this on and off on both shoulders and learned to live with it, but it still sucks).

Resets:
Squat: two times due to form issues/pain, one time due to three times failure
Bench: one time due to three times failure
Press: one time due to three times failure
Deadlift: never
Power clean: countless times due to form issues/pain in the knees

my current stats:
Age: 28
Height: 5'9''
Body weight: 194lbs (from 174)
Squat: 270lbs (from 132)
Bench: 187lbs (from 99)
Press: 132lbs (from 55)
Deadlift: 325lbs (from 176)
Power cleans: 99lbs (I did low weights to learn the movement, but my knees are killing me)


Tom

[Mark Rippetoe]

Triple your meat intake and cut out the milk and carbs, and things will improve immediately.

[dsp]

so linear progression should last longer than tihis with more meat and less milk?

[Mark Rippetoe]

You're a very simple person, dsp.

[kwerk]

Oh great, did whole milk go from good in the 50s to bad in the 70s to good in the 00s to now bad again?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Yeah, that's what happened, especially for fat people.

[Need2Lift]

Oh great, did whole milk go from good in the 50s to bad in the 70s to good in the 00s to now bad again?

Yeah, that's what happened, especially for fat people.

We're talking about good and bad in two different senses, aren't we? The first is the question of whether the saturated fat in whole milk causes heart disease. I'll leave that argument to other threads. The second is how whole milk affects weight. It seems to me based on my own personal experience that Mark's right that whole milk is very conducive to weight gain. So it makes sense to me that whole milk would be good for the guys who need to put on some pounds and not so good for those of us who are not challenged in that department.

[unruhschuh]

Triple your meat intake and cut out the milk and carbs, and things will improve immediately.

Thanks for the reply. I'll try that and see what happens.

[Wannabeatank]

Linear progression does not end after SS.

SS: daily progression.
5x5: weekly progression.
5/3/1: monthly progression.

All still linear.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Right. It's slope just gets flatter.