After 27 weeks of running LP, it was time to make the jump into intermediate training. My ending numbers for LP were:
Squats:290x5x3
Bench: 205@3
Press: 140@3
Deadlift:330@3
PC: 125x3x5 (I kept this light because my form sucks).
Stuff I forgot to add:
Age:53 (54 in Aug)
BW:226.5 (as of Monday)
So after much digging into The Barbell Prescription, and PPST and various Andy Baker videos on YouTube about the H/L/M I got out my training log book, and put together a plan. I think I am going to have to go to the four day split, however, as adding the volume has increased my time and I can't go to work late every M,W,F as my boss would frown upon that, even if I were making great gains. But, for today, I got in and knocked out the first of many. I am going to cycle this for 12 weeks to see what I can do. Without further ado..today's numbers:
Squat: 290x5, 265x5x4-taking Sully and Andy's advice from the Barbell Prescription here, and "toeing" my way into the deep end. Hit the first Heavy at a set of 5 (or three for my bench as it seems) and work up from there.
Bench: 205x3. I probably should have backed this down to 200, as I never fully got 205 up for 5. Didn't really think about this until after I did the set. I then did 195x5x4 with 3 min rest in between sets. Hoping that would help cut down time in the work out.
Light Dead Lifts: 280x5x2-still working on form with these, and like the idea of the heavy pull on a light squat day, so my "heavy" day for DL will be on Wed. this week. I tried to video myself doing these, and kind of failed on that. Not sure how all these young "hipsters" are able to pull off a good video. I am terrible at it.