Novice on limited schedule

[lastditch]

Hi
I have been doing the novice program for 6 months but my work schedule is gradually eating into my workouts and I am only sensibly able to complete two of the exercises without rushing - I have about 45mins per workout.
Which would be less detrimental, to cut the working sets to 2x5 to save time or add an extra day? - something like

Mon; Squat (3x5) Bench/Press (3x5)
Wed; Squat (2x5 80%) , Dead/Clean,
Thur; Bench/Press (3x5), Chin (3xF)
Sat; Squat (3x5), Bench/Press(3x5)

I love this program and really dont want to screw with it, but I would be grateful for any experienced guidence about which is the lesser of the two evils.

just incase my stats:
44 years old, bodyweight 80kg,
Squat 112kg for 5
Bench 70kg for 5
Dead 115 for 5
Clean 62 for 3
Press 50 for 5
so I think I still have someway to go on the novice program

Thanks for any help or advice.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Another post today posed the same question essentially. You do what you can. This looks okay.

[JLascek]

Perhaps the Deadlift/Power Clean can be switched to Thursday, and then pressing from Thursday moved to Wednesday. That's what I would do.

I assume you don't have more time on Saturday's? Because you're only doing a pulling movement once a week, or in other words you're only power cleaning twice a month.

[lastditch]

Perhaps the Deadlift/Power Clean can be switched to Thursday, and then pressing from Thursday moved to Wednesday. That's what I would do.

I assume you don't have more time on Saturday's? Because you're only doing a pulling movement once a week, or in other words you're only power cleaning twice a month.

Thanks for the advice JLascek. Yes I was concerned about this also. I included the chins to make the balance of exercises almost equal to that in the advanced novice program in PP. But since my post I have actually decided to split two full workouts over the week a follows:
Mon: Squat and Bench
Wed: Cleans
Thurs: Squat and Press
Sat: Deads and Chins

Its just simpler for me to get my head around and since I'm older recovery from the squats is starting to become an issue so I figured this would be a reasonable balance. I have some time on Wed to add another pressing movement if neccessary. I'm going to run with this for a couple of months and then post the results. Thanks again for the input I really appreciate it. Its really frustrating not being able to find the time for such a straightforward program