Can you make weekly progression when you only do every lift (bench,press,dead,squat) once a week?
I want to add 5 pounds to all my lifts after every week, but I feel this may be hard when I only bench once a week.
Can you make weekly progression when you only do every lift (bench,press,dead,squat) once a week?
I want to add 5 pounds to all my lifts after every week, but I feel this may be hard when I only bench once a week.
I only did each lift once per week and I have made gains for the last 3 months consistently. I have recently switched to a slower progression (5/3/1) for a variety of reasons, but I imagine I could have kept the gains going for a few more months.
Starting strength has you increasing squats 15-30lbs a week, and 10-15 on upper body lifts per week, so 5lbs/week is a reasonable expectation as long as your recovery is good. Just pick a good routine that fits your schedule and follow it, there are plenty of linear programs that work well.
Are you asking if you only literally once a week perform only the squat bench and deadlift on one day aweek or what.
Stop asking questions and just go lift already.
[quote]Chris87 wrote:
Stop asking questions and just go lift already.[/quote]
x2.
And yes. You can also probably progress every single session if you do those lifts 2-3x a week. I’d be very very surprised if you couldn’t add 15-30lbs a week to your squat in the first month or two of lifting.
EDIT: what prodigul said