Microloading on the press

[Sean Plant]

Hi,
This might seem a silly question, but once 1.25kg increments on the press stop working on LP, what does experience suggest works best afterwards? Would you go down to 1, 0.75 or 0.5kg increments? Run through them all? Move to 3x3?

(Apologies if you don’t know the translation to pounds. Pounds would be about 2.2 times the kg value FYI.)

Thanks.

[Satch12879]

See Wolf's excellent thread, here:

Trying to keep LP alive

After what Wolf suggests, it's probably time for a programming change.

[I_iz_a_fatass]

Changing the programming for LP, although if you lift in a commercial gym the plates likely have a high enough variance that microloading is a fool's errand. It may be worth trading off three sets of five for five sets of three.

[Sean Plant]

Thanks 👍

[Mark Rippetoe]

Changing the programming for LP, although if you lift in a commercial gym the plates likely have a high enough variance that microloading is a fool's errand. It may be worth trading off three sets of five for five sets of three.

Might even be worth buying your own microplates.

[Sean Plant]

I’ve recently bought a pack of 8x0.5, 2x0.25 & 2x0.125kg plates.