Novice issues and misunderstandings (focus deadlift)
Hello, I am new to the forum and I have some interesting questions to ask, at least for me and I hope that someone will help me, because I am committed to training and I want to progress. Generally I am novice and my numbers are not so high although I started to go to gym 9-10 months ago, I made mistakes and I did not know much about the linear progression and strength programming.
So I am here to learn and hopefully improve myself, I was reading about the starting strength program and I understood many things, however some are still unclear to me.
My numbers :
Bench : 65 kg - 143.3 pounds for 4 repetitions
Overhead press : 32,5 kg - 71.65 pounds for 4 repetitions
Deadlift - recently started and had 2 sessions, feeling pretty good - 55 kg did for 3 sets of 5 repetitions
Squat : Able to do with just my body - unable to do with bar on my back - no enough depth - so I did not do them
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Dips - 26,5 kg for 5 reps
Pull ups - 5 repetitions - body weight
I mixed up many things, trained more often and did not involve linear progression on right way also did not have enough rest between the sets
My questions :
1. Because I am unable to do the squat how should I train deadlift, should I do more sets, like I did 3 sets of 5 ?
2. How should I warm up for deadlift, if my working set would be 60 kg next time, should I do 1 or 2 sets with 40 kg before ?
3. Should I do lunges for example instead of squat, as substitute ?
4. What is the most optimal time to rest between sets of deadlift and also other lifts like bech press and overhead press 5 or 7 minutes ?
5. Until now I did not have access to the fractional weights and no gym had them in my area so I decided to purchase them, should I now go from 65 kg bench press to 52 kg bench press for example and work my way up adding 2 kg and than 1,5 kg and than 1 kg, because I thing that I can still benefit from the linear progression ?
6. How do I exactly know the lenght of phase 1 and 2 (asking because of deadlift and power clean now ) because there was written 1-3 weeks for phase 1 and phase 2 several weeks to several months ?
7. During the phase 2 do I still workout 3 days and do I alternate each day with deadlift and power clean ? For example : A - Deadlift B- Powerclean A - Deadlift other week - A : Power clean B: Deadlift A: Power Clean and so on ?
Thanks for the polite answers.