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The Book of James - Novice Linear Progression
The Facts: I'm 44 years old, 5'11", 226lbs. My sleep is shoddy, probably average around six hours a night. I had a lumbar microdiscectomy in 2004. I did about a year of a beginner bodybuilding type workout back in my late teens and I've done a few months here and there over the years but never consistently and never with any real grasp on strength training. I stopped weight training because I discovered grappling martial arts. After that it became a matter of time scarcity and whenever I had to choose between strength and conditioning and grappling I chose grappling. About five years ago I was in college and had a string of injuries everytime I tried to get back into training. I figure old age caught up with me.
I was attracted to Starting Strength because it gave a very detailed explanation of how to get stronger and I was able to absorb that in a way that clicked in my brain, convinced me I was a novice and provided me with just enough information to effectively get started without so much information that I lost focus before starting.
I started the NLP on 8/26/19 after piddling around for a couple months with various magazine workouts and a two week stint trying to do 5/3/1 after reading an article about it on T-Nation. It took about that long to keep reading and realize that I was not in fact at a point in time where that'd be the best use of my time. I missed a couple weeks from the gym, maybe more like a month reading "Starting Strength" and then got rolling. I had a little idea of what my work weights would look like from the fooling around I'd been doing so here goes three weeks and a day of workouts.
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So far this is awesome for me, I'm enjoying it and I feel great, the ques are easy to follow. The only issue is I wish it were possible to go hit it every day, I feel the urge most days. I know I'd burn out on it if I did though. The low volume nature these workouts is keeping me awfully hungry workout to workout, I get to the gym and I feel like a dog straining against the leash. Thanks for your time.