Sanity check- spreading to program out over 6/7 days at home
Merry Christmas all, 50 yr old, 5’11, 225lbs. Late start to SSNLP, bought SS in 2015, played with it a bit and got more serious this year with PP and the BB Prescription.
Covid lockdowns have propelled me to spend the money on a bar, 400lbs of plates and a rack with lat pull attachment. On the plus side this allowed me to convince my wife to start training, but it means I’m sharing/coaching. We’ve found that we prefer to spend less time each day and spread our programs out over the 6/7 days. Easier to build a habit and be consistent about training. She hit the limits of the LP after 6-8 weeks and is on H-L splits now, and I’ve just started Texas Method. Given those programs are more of a weekly cycle, it seems to me that there is no harm in alternating squat/pull with pressing, so the standard 3 day program becomes a 6/7 day program.
I get that recover for the next squat day may be impaired by a press the day before, but there must be fatiguing/recovery issues of some sort when doing 3 lifts a day that would offset this. I don’t recall having read anything that discusses the recovery compromises in quite this light. Current work sets are squat 286, deadlift 330, press 112, bench 165. I still have some headroom on squat/deadlift but I find the fatigue levels interfere with life so am switching to TM across the board.
I wish to focus pressing generally as previous shoulder injuries mean that is my weak area. I pinched a nerve while swimming back in 2016 that almost paralysed my left tricep (>90% strength loss) that took an age to recover and is still not strong, which lead to a torn supraspinatus tendon in my right shoulder early this year when my left arm given way during a lockdown pike press. Still rehabbing that one so both shoulders are about equally bad at the moment.
Would welcome some more experienced thoughts on the issue of a spread out program.