Adding Volume to Linear Progression?

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How to add volume in linear progression?

Can it work if start is 3x3 when stall deload 10 precent or more and instead of doing 3x3 again switch to 4x3 and build up, that is 12 total reps instead 9 which is more volume?

After that go to 5x3,6x3,7x3,8x3,9x3,10x3, when stall on 10x3 deload 5 kg above where the start was and build up when stall again do same thing (something Pavel did in PTTP).

Is it good to make small or big jumps in volume to make it harder for body to get used to?

Will these variants work:
Goin up then down and again up 3x3,4x3,3x3,5x3,4x3,3x3,6x3,5x3,4x3,3x3,7x3,6x3,5x3,4x3,3x3,8x3,7x3,6x3,5x3,4x3,3x3,9x3,8x3,7x3,6x3,5x3,4x3,3x3,10x3

Or
3x3,5x3,4x3,6x3,…

I don’t have enough knowledge about volume an manipulation with same so if somebody can write about that?

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@BigTomJ
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Move to Bigger Stronger Leaner

What are your goals?

If you are undulating volume, you are not using linear progression anymore.

Why not just use a tried and true template like 5/3/1 or any of the dozens of others that already exist?

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Here’s one from the black and white days.

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I was thinking about LP programs and something is not good and that is on SS, SL, and few others when stall deload and build up with same rep scheme then go after 5x5 to 3x5, 3x3, decreasing volume instead increasing it, because more volume is more progress. So i asked is it good to do 3x3 deload then switch to 4x3 for more volume and build up continiu progress long terms.

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Those are two different progression models. I don’t see a huge benefit to trying to combine both simultaneously.

You might want to look at Thibaudeau’s “triple profession” basically a double progression but cycling through different rep ranges. That might accomplish what you’re looking for in terms of additional means to progress past a plateau.

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No, that’s not how this works.

If you stall on LP it’s because you either haven’t adapted or haven’t recovered from the last workout. The switch from 5x5 to 3x5 and then 3x3 on many LP programs is because it allows you to keep adding weight when you “stall”. This little bit of periodization allows you to lift more when you go back to your 5x5s which you then run through again.

With that said, if your nutrition, sleep and consistency are spot on and you’ve stalled out your linear progression, it’s probably better you switch over to double progression (and learn about triple progression from the article @TrainForPain posted for if you much later feel you’ve stalled that out). Eventually adding weight every week just gets harder and harder which can eventually grind you down. Working in a rep range and adding reps to the same weight then becomes a better option (for most).

If you want to continue running something where you add weight every week then switch to something like Texas Method (which is Starting Strength’s next logical step laid out in the book,), or try something entirely new. There’s an endless amount of things you can try, one of which was mentioned above.

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To be fair, as I reread, I guess I should have acknowledged double progression kind of is adding volume to linear progression… just not in the way I think he envisioned

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