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andrewotbc
Thanks a lot for the comments everyone.
Misspelled Geoff - the 75kg I mentioned was just the weight I was looking up in the table in PP. My target bodyweight was 80-85kg but maybe I shouldn't be too precious about the 85kg limit. I think I'll up the amount I'm trying to gain a week to more like 1kg in the early days and then 0.5kg from then on and see where that takes me (more like 90kg by the end of the year). I've done searches but can't find a huge amount of advice about diet/weight gain programming for SS - what I've found is quite vague when it comes to recommended calories and target weight gains per week, but to me, this amount of weight gain seems sufficient for making the most of SS.
Sami - I just want to be realistic and don't really know what I can get to and how quickly.
beast - Ditto above. I just know that I have been going to the gym for a while and not gained that much and am just cautious that SS will make such a massive difference for me. I agree though that other people have done this with SS and that if I don't it is only going to be my fault. About the dips, I am not doing them or chins to start with but I will probably try to introduce them in a few months. The nice to haves are pretty irrelevant though, the main thing is getting those main lifts up as high as possible.
Thanks again everyone for encouraging me to be ambitious. I am just trying to be realistic when it comes to setting targets because I think that way I am more likely to stick with it and reach them. But if I do reach them sooner than I think I will push on. I hope to post the first week update tomorrow.