Deadlifting + squatting

[j4mi3]

Before beginning your program i could deadlift 120kg x5 fairly conservatively, but now post-squatting i find 100kg pretty taxing. I am concerned i will not be able to reach my previous PR at this rate.

This may be because before i was letting my chest drop in the squats, and thus using more lower back but im not sure if that is the case; as in my last video you saw i thought my back angle was ok, although my lower back still felt very exhausted. Do you know why my lower back may be this fatigued?

I originally did 'your' program for like a month when i first started weight training and i didnt know anything and hadnt read the book etc and i was using high-bar squats for example, and i didnt have this problem. My lower back was always sore, but not completely fatigued.

I have heard some argue in the way that squats should be light on deadlift days, what are your views on this?

[Mark Rippetoe]

How much do you weigh, how tall are you, how old are you, how much weight have you gained, how much do you eat?

[j4mi3]

im 16, 166lbs, 5'11.

I eat enough to gain around 1-1.5lbs a week so im guessing around 3200-3400 calories.

Since starting i have gained probably about 8lbs

[Mark Rippetoe]

http://startingstrength.com/articles...n_rippetoe.pdf

[j4mi3]

i see. i had read that by the way, but i was starting at about 16% bodyfat so i didnt class myself as underweight, therefore i did not think i needed to gain the amount suggested in the first part of the program. I thought 1lb was what was necessary. I take that as a no then? Do you think more along the lines of 2lb? It just seems a bit much to me, but if you think thats why im having trouble here il do it.

[Mark Rippetoe]

http://startingstrength.com/articles...n_rippetoe.pdf

[forgeforth]

j4mi3: YNDTP buddy.

I went from 180 to 225 in about 5 minutes. You're underweight. I wouldn't worry too much about body fat. Get big and strong first. That'll change your body composition more than cutting back the fat. Cutting fat will come in time, and it can be achieved simply by focusing on high protein intake from lean sources and a caloric deficit. Or, just go back to eating 'when you feel like' and the weight will come off. Because the program calls for you to eat more than that.

Just by reading your post I assumed this was a recovery issue. The lifts themselves are taxing, especially for a novice. The food is just as important as the lifts.