Originally Posted by
Erik Y
These look pretty good to me, honestly. Focus on technique during your warmups and you should be fine. Better breathing might help, too. And do you have a belt yet?
This is not what a limit set looks like, trust me - and remember, you still have advanced novice linear progression and a top set with two back offs ahead of you before you’ve truly run out LP. I’d say it’s definitely worth keeping the weight going up.
Your most important job now that it’s starting to feel heavy is to focus on the R part of the SRA cycle. Are you sleeping at least eight hours of good sleep a night? Are you still eating over 4,000 calories a day? A strong guy at your height is going to be over 200 pounds, and you want to get your weight up out ahead of your lifts becoming hard. There’s a lot of focus on technique on this forum, and while that’s important, keep in mind that it’s in the context of strength being the key adaptation we want to drive. That means getting the weights up and recovering from them first and foremost.