My final results from Starting Strength LP

[GarageGym1012]

I just finished up Starting Strength LP and I thought I'd post my final results since I made pretty good progress. Here's a little background info about me. I'm a 48 year old male who's been lifting weights on and off most of my life, although I never did a linear progression (just mainly bodybuilding bullshit), so I thought that maybe SSLP would work for me. I was also a runner prior to my starting this program, but I stopped running when I began. This is why my bodyweight was so low when I started. Also, I managed to get 36 weeks (9 months) out of the program, but the last few months it was heavily modified because all my lifts didn't stall at the same time, so I had to accommodate. My squat was the first to stall and in the 25th week I added a light day on the squat on Wednesday. In the 31st week I added a medium day to the squat on Friday (so it was basically intermediate programming for the squat at that point). All my other lifts were still progressing and I milked every last pound I could by decreasing my jumps by a half pound at a time, until I got down to 1lb jumps. I'm currently doing Andy Baker's Garage Gym Warrior program and I'll post the results I get from that when I finish. Let me know what you think.


Age: 48
Height: 5'-9"
Bodyweight: 167lbs-215lbs (48 lb gain)
Duration: 36 weeks (9 months)
Squat: 195-375 (180 lb gain 5RM), 425 1RM
Deadlift: 195-395 (200 lb gain 5RM), 445 1RM
Bench: 145-235 (90 lb gain 5RM), 260 1RM
Press: 95-173.5 (78.5 lb gain 5RM), 200 1RM

[positronbomb]

Nice one.

What height?

[GarageGym1012]

Thanks, I'm 5'-9".

[carson]

Good work. Will you now be posting regularly? Will you switch to posting in the Intermediate section?

[positronbomb]

Thanks, I'm 5'-9".

Bloody impressive.

[Geoff Bischoff]

That's a very good LP gain. Thanks for posting here. I hope you log your intermediate journey as well!