This is the way the workouts are supposed to feel, for several months. When you have a good one, that's normal. Stick with the program, exactly as written, or you'll get stuck.
Quick background:
43 years old
5'9" 225 20%ish bf, mostly belly fat.
Currently at (3 x 5's): Squat - 290, Dead - 280, Bench - 146, Press - 92.
Current schedule: Monday, Thursday, A and B routines using the SS App (which is spectacular, by the way), substituting dumbbell rows (85lbs) and lat pulldowns (160lbs) for Power Cleans, alternating. 3 workout week (MWF) 1st week of the month.
Started roughly following SS plan in August of '15. Diet was (and still is) missing piece. Not enough protein, too much bullshit. Working on it.
Hit a huge overtraining pit in November. 2 weeks rest, scaled back from MWF to current schedule. No OT problems since.
Linear progression flattening, using mini plates to progress with smaller increments (3lbs/per squat, 2 deadlift, 1.5 bench, 1 press.)
Absolutely demolished my entire workout today. Never completed my last bench set of 5 in sequence (without racking and unracking to squeeze out the last 1 or 2) at 145, tore through all 3 sets without any problem. Similar with squats, although I've never racked on those. Everything just felt light. It was awesome.
What I did today was just do the schedule, and leave. My question is, when I'm having a big day like that should I do "more" (sets, reps, exercise variants, whatever) to stimulate more adaptation, or should I just let a good day be a good day? Obviously if that trend continues I'm going to increase my weight progressions, but should I do that within the session, too?
Thanks.
This is the way the workouts are supposed to feel, for several months. When you have a good one, that's normal. Stick with the program, exactly as written, or you'll get stuck.
Head home and have a celebratory fuck. Always a great way to top off a great workout.
I'm glad that question was asked. I've started back in on the novice progression after a long layoff, and I've been thinking, "This is too easy! I must not be doing enough..." Thought I might not be doing enough to spur adaptation, but the weights keep slowly going up.