Bar speed...blah, blah....it's too complicated and confusing. If you keep a logbook and take notes you can use your judgement. If the last few reps or the last set is just too darn hard and you barely get the reps up then you can make a decision to keep the same weight or not add as much.

But that's not my point. The point is if you are already missing reps at this point then you are curtailing the overall length of the program. You will end up resetting the weight back sooner rather than later. Keep in mind also that there is a big difference between someone who has never touched a bar and someone who has some lifting behind them.

An absolute novice starting relatively heavy won't stall out as fast as someone who has a bit more experience because relatively heavy for a novice is not really heavy in terms of their potential. The intensity they can muster is not really that much because of the immaturity of the nervous system. At the same time they cannot load as fast (they will likely need smaller increments). So they will progress more slowly but will progress longer.

Another person who has more stength development but could still be considered a beginner could stall out faster with the same starting weight that would advance a novice. A more fit beginner may be able to use bigger loading increments but they will stall out sooner.

The trick is not to stall out TOO soon. Because if you start stalling out too soon then it is already getting time to lower the increments and so on and so forth...much less overall progress is made before you have to reset, and then stall out again, quite possibly never really getting it going again.

There is no reason at this point in the game that you should have to be switching around your loading amounts so much.

You should probably start a journal. How long have you been on program? I would expect steady progress for at least 3 weeks if not 4 before you need to drop the loading amount to half and then continue progression uninterupted for a while before dropping it again, if possible. Stopping and starting early on in the program is bad mojo for the best results.

You should look through Phil's journal.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.