Should I push bodyweight up harder after completely stalling?
I have been doing weight training for around 2 years now but never actually did a proper beginner LP. After reading both books, I started doing SS in July of 2020, at 70kg bodyweight and 181cm height with a 100kg x 5 squat, 135kg x 5 deadlift, 90kg x 5 bench and 50kg x 5 OHP. Despite having to bike to the gym, which took all the energy out of me because it was about an hour uphill (the 40ºC+ weather in my country also did not help), in around 3 months i got to 170kg x 5 squat and 195kg x 5 deadlift. My bench and my ohp did not go up as much (110kg x 5 and 65kg x 5 respectively) but this was entirely due to form issues. At this point in late September I was around 83kg bodyweight. The Starting Strength program is incredible and I had never expected to gain strength so quickly.
By this point, my program was:
Monday: Squat (heavy): 1 set 5 reps, Bench/ohp (alternating): 3 sets 5 reps, Chinups: 3 sets 15 reps
Wednesday: Squat (light): 3 sets 5 reps, Bench/ohp (alternating): 3 sets 5 reps, Deadlift: 1 set 5 reps
Friday: Squat (heavy): 1 set 5 reps, Bench/ohp (alternating): 3 sets 5 reps, Rows: 3 sets 5 reps
I know this is not the correct program, but considering how I was already exhausted from the bike trip before even touching the barbell, I had to drop to 1 heavy squat set.
I moved to a different city to attend to uni and could now train at a great "oldschool" style gym, with rusty weights, great barbells and some extremely strong lifters. Despite that, and no longer needing to do a 1hr bike ride before training, my lifts completely stalled and did not improve at all between September and January (when gyms closed again in my country). As a matter of fact, they got worse over time, and by the end my squat and deadlift had gone down 10kg. My bodyweight also didn't change during this period.
Gyms reopened a week ago and I'm currently at 82kg bw with my lifts rapidly increasing: squat at 135kg x 5, deadlift at 155kg x 5, bench at 95kg x 5 and ohp at 55kg x 5.
The question I have is, when I most likely end up stalling around the same strength as before at 80-odd kg, should I push calories higher, and attempt to reach 90-100kg bodyweight? I was eating 4200 calories at 83kg. Again, I'm 181cm so this might seem skinny. However, I feel like having stalled so hard and even regressed might mean I should just move onto an intermediate program when that happens again. Also, since I no longer need to do cardio to reach the gym, I'm doing the program entirely by the book, without changing the squats to 1 set only.
