Disaster of a training day, unsure what to do next.
My workout today was a disaster. I don't know what else to call it. Squat/press/deadlift today. Squat I managed, but it's also still 15 pounds lower than the best I've done, because I'm trying like hell to get aspects of the grip and the bar on the shoulders correct. Despite this, my legs have been left on the weaker side recently. It's becoming more of a strain just to get up from a seated position all the time, especially so after today. Press was scheduled for a 2 pound jump. I managed 2 of those prior to this, so I figured I'd go for another until I had to start dropping to 1s. I got out 3 before a total failure, first set in. I took the .5s off either side to finish the last 2 reps one pound lower (a one pound jump from last time), and I couldn't get the bar up. I ended up having to drop weight down 10 pounds before I could get 3 sets of 5 out with it. My last workout was a tough but doable 124 for 3 sets of 5. This one ended up being 115 for the same. Deadlift was even worse. Granted, I'd been doing 10 pound jumps recently and pulling it off despite trepidation each time, since I knew 10s wasn't going to keep up. But 10 pounds more than last time resulted in me not even being able to get the thing off the ground once. I stripped the bar down to the 45s to put it back in the rack (a weight 20 pounds lighter than my PR last session) and it was hell getting it there.
My food and sleep are fine, I don't know what to do, this seems like way more than just a missed PR. First inclination was to look into information about beginning intermediate programming, but the consensus seems to be that a guy like me should be managing larger numbers (on the squat, at least) before going into intermediate stuff. I haven't even thrown in the light day for my squats yet, and people seem to think even that shouldn't be done until much further on than where I'm at. I'm not even squatting with bodyweight on the bar yet. Any ideas on what might be going on here and how to fix it?