SS Novice progression for 42 YO. 2 days a week vs 3 days with a light day?
Thanks again to this whole community and Rip for the books and the enormous amount of educational material here. I'm still making my way through the books.
I'm doing a Mon, Wed, Friday A/B split, the regular novice program with alternating deadlifts and powercleans.
I'm debating between switching to a 2-day a week workout (Monday/Thursday for example) or changing my Wednesday to a light day.
I feel like I could use a bit more rest, by Friday my whole body just feels tired and I'm missing lifts. I still feel a little tired Monday but I'm stronger and resume progress.
I'm still in my novice progression. I've missed a couple lifts but have then progressed the next session, not "stuck" yet.
My lifts are getting harder, especially the squat, and I'm learning to deal with what "heavy" squats feel like and to suffer under the bar, I'm OK with that.
I'm in reasonably good shape and besides failing occasional lifts I finish my training strong and am productive the rest of the day.
During the week I always feel trained but I don't feel abnormally sore. I feel pretty good overall just never totally recovered before my next workout.
I'm eating more, more carbs, as much protein as I can get, nominal fat (I get it from animal protein).
22-May 22-Jul
Bodyweight 175 185
Squat 160 230 (grinding)
Deadlift 190 295 (hard but feels good)
P-Clean 135 155 (form reset, good progress now)
Press 95 120 (tough, harder and slower progress than bench)
Bench 155 185 (tough but moving steadily up)