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Afisher321
Hi Rip,
I'm 6ft 94kg 24%bodyfat and 29 year old male. Getting a bit chubby around the waist but i still want to get stronger so until i get a bit too fat for my liking i will continue to be in a slight surplus. I have trained on and off since I was 22 and maybe only properly since using your method october 2021. I made progress and then snapped my ACL and mcl playing football and had a big lay off while still going to the gym. I then came back around august/September time to train using the LP and have ever since. My lifts in kg
Bench 77.5x5
Squat 120x5
Deadlift 170x5
Press 57.5x5
Everything slowly going up still accept bench and press. I am now trying to bench 3 times a week and keep getting stuck on 77.5kg, maybe I need even lighter jumps. I get 5 if I'm lucky then next set I get 3 and then go back down to 75kg.
I am thinking my rate of adaption has slowed and I need a more intermediate plan for the bench? Maybe the volume day for the Monday? I have started squatting 2x per week with the deadlift in the middle which is working for my recovery. Please let me know your thoughts!
P.s I am a PT, have read your books and re read and train all my clients in this method. I have even started a learn2lift class covering this exercises in the way you teach them and has really helped a lot of people so thank you.