Running out NLP

[Danis]

Hey Mark, On your last podcast you had mentioned a guys numbers were pretty low for his height and weight to not be getting off NLP and I was just curious what your thoughts were on a guy who is 6’2 280 lbs approx 30% body fat. I was stalling out at around 230x5 bench 165x5 press 350x5 squat and 410x5 deadlift and after switching over to 4 day split and hearing your podcast comments I’d like to know if you think those numbers are low and if I should still be on the NLP Instead of moving to intermediate. Thanks

[Mark Rippetoe]

How old are you? And why did I have to ask you that?

[Danis]

34. Because I forgot to include it.

[Mark Rippetoe]

The First Three Questions | Mark Rippetoe

Make sure these are answered correctly, and continue with your NLP.

[Danis]

Thanks

[CommanderFun]

I'd add that if you apply the three questions to your training and don't find anything that can be improved, don't bang your head against the wall, especially if the 4 day stuff works where the LP stopped working.

[Danis]

Can you do the 4 day split, 3 days per week or is it not enough stress? For example

Monday - bench intensity, press volume
Wednesday - deadlift intensity, squat volume
Friday - press intensity, bench volume

Monday - squat intensity, volume pull
Wednesday - bench intensity, press volume
Friday - deadlift intensity, squat volume

And so on in this order. Is this a good option to make solid progress or is the stress too spread out? Thanks

[CommanderFun]

I've seen a number of SSCs report running a 4 day split on a 3 day per week schedule like that with clients successfully. I've thought about doing it myself eventually.

[Satch12879]

Depends on the loads being moved.

[KeithI]

Depends on the loads being moved.

This seems applicable to almost every question on this forum.