ardee wrote:
The recovery is killing me. I can get the form down but my CNS is just about fried all the time and I feel like I'm sacrificing progress everywhere else to keep upping my squat. It's getting to the point where I'm dreading squatting because I know it saps 70% of my energy. It's just too exhausting to keep squatting three days a week at continually increasing weights.
I did deload down to about 235, but every time I cross 250-260 my CNS starts giving out on me.
Interesting...I can only speculate but since I obviously can't see what's going on I can't say for sure. If you are unable to do a 3X5 set with proper form and the right amount of speed, the next workout do you still increase weights? You're supposed to only increase weights once you have successfully done 3X5. Or maybe you're adding too much weight? When I would progress I would only progress by 5 pounds.
For instance, if you go in on Monday and you can do 2X5 with good speed and good form but only 1X4 for the last set then you are supposed to stick with the same weight on Wednesday. If you are unable to progress on Friday and Monday again, then you deload by twenty pounds and work your way back up. If memory serves me correctly, Rippetoe designed the program so that it would take roughly 7-9 months. When I was doing Starting Strength, I was on it for about 9 months before I had to move on to the intermediate program.
Another issue could be that you have plateaued. I believe once you have deloaded three times on the squat then you are supposed to move on to the intermediate Starting Strength program (it's similar for the most part, but it includes pull ups and rows).
In case you don't have the book, here's the wiki for Starting Strength (look on the right side of the page at 1-6.
http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/ ... ength_Wiki
