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Novice lifts and progression while cutting
I'm a 230 lbs, 5,8" male and am roughly 3 months into squatting, deadlifting, pressing and benching. My progress has been very limited due to the fact that I'm fairly heavily overweight and am eating at a deficit to lose fat before trying to bulk. Here are my lifts currently, all for 5x3:
Deadlift - 200 lbs
Squat - 185 lbs
Press - 95 lbs
Bench - 135 lbs
All of these are feeling very heavy at the moment and I'm stalling often if I try to go any higher, should I just be staying at the same weight I know i can perform for 5 reps until ive lost the weight and can eat more?
Also, should I be staying right at the beginning of the novice program and not including power cleans and such for now as I have been so far, or should I start including them even if I can't progress much? I'm not sure I can do pullups at all, I'm too heavy to lift myself even once right now.
Thank you in advance.
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Pull ups are easily modified to doing lat pull downs.
Those numbers are obviously pretty low. I wonder how much of a deficit you are on and if Robert Santan might be better able to assist you since this seems more of a nutrition related issue.
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