Wife's bench stalling. where to go next?

[Haggit]

My wife's bench has been stalling the past couple weeks and I'm hoping to figure it out quickly to keep her from getting too discouraged. She has been doing a split with her bench on TM for four weeks.
looks like this
Mon: bench volume 5x5
CGB 3 sets
Ring rows
Tues: deads
Squats @80% 2x5
Wed: off
Thurs: bench intensity 5RM
press 3x5
Ring rows
Fri: squats 3x5
Back ext. 3xAMRAP

She saw two 5RM PRs the first two weeks and the following two weeks she was only able to get 3 reps of the prescribed 1.5# jump (91.5#) . Her 3x5 press looks okay still. She missed her last rep of a PR today but its because she let it get out in front of her. Her volume bench has been easy for her. We started it at 73% of her 3x5 and been progressing it at the same pace as the intensity day

Just prior to starting her bench on TM she was doing 3x5 bench on Monday. No CGB.

Age 26
Weight 150

[Les Hahn]

For intensity day you could give triples or even doubles or singles a shot. She could keep going with the 5x5 volume day.

[Haggit]

Is it odd that fives stalled so quick?

[Patrick Stroup]

Is it odd that fives stalled so quick?

nope!

id go to 5 singles across with the weight she did last week. i had a ton of sucess with this myself and its what Andy Baker is always recommending.

[Haggit]

Okay! I just couldn't get past how quickly they stalled. She said 90# was easy.
Playing on this some; her deadlift hit a wall, too.... any thoughts?

[Kazzin]

When 5's stall try 5 singles across. When these stall, try for only one single. When this stalls, revert back to 5's and see what progress you've made. The goal is to keep putting weight on the bar.

[Patrick Stroup]

When 5's stall try 5 singles across. When these stall, try for only one single. When this stalls, revert back to 5's and see what progress you've made. The goal is to keep putting weight on the bar.

yeah this is the KSC special right here. bet it would work beautifully with the deadlift as well.

[Haggit]

Okay! I switched her deads to singles this week to see if we can't get them moving again but I am concerned with volume accumulation since we dropped power cleans. Should I be concerned?

[Briks42]

When you are dealing with lower weights, the stalls come quicker as the % of the jumps can be kinda big (even with 1.5 pound jumps).

Besides the other good suggestions already made, you might want to raise the volume day weight a decent amount. Women tend to be able to handle a higher % of their one rep max for reps, so 5x5 volume day at 73% of her 3x5 (which is probably about 80% or so of her 1 rep max)) seems really low to me. She might be stalling due to not getting enough stimulus from volume day.

[Haggit]

When you are dealing with lower weights, the stalls come quicker as the % of the jumps can be kinda big (even with 1.5 pound jumps).

Besides the other good suggestions already made, you might want to raise the volume day weight a decent amount. Women tend to be able to handle a higher % of their one rep max for reps, so 5x5 volume day at 73% of her 3x5 (which is probably about 80% or so of her 1 rep max)) seems really low to me. She might be stalling due to not getting enough stimulus from volume day.

You know watching her lift it today all I could think about was stimulus. Not enough stimulus. I mean it was all she had to get the three reps. Then I'm like Jesus we added a ton of volume with the 5x5 and the cgb so it was throwing me for a loop.