Your program looks solid. My first suggestion would be that you make sure your extra workouts are focused on your weak areas, do not do extra work just for the sake of it, everything should structured to help, not overdo it. From my experience and reading of westside methods it usually quite some time before extra workouts are required. Unless you have already developed the solid base for starting, you will be unable to make good gains. As far as the sets/reps it should be more volume oriented(higher reps), remember the idea is to push blood into the muscle to aid in recovery, not as a workout per se. Check out previous articles on this by Dave Tate and Chad Waterbury as well as Elite Fitness. I hope it helps.
I started training Westside about 6 months ago and it’s just recently that I started with extra workouts. GPP/feeder workouts.
Don’t be too much in a hurry, start with the original template and after a while start incorporate extra workouts.
If you’re pushing yourself hard enough during your workouts you shouldn’t need extra work. Recouperation is the key to progress, you don’t grow stronger in the gym, it’s when you eat and rest.
Some of the BIG guys are using extra workouts, some don’t.
You have to find out what works for YOU.
Good luck, Westside is the way to go. I’ve trained a bit over 30 years and after the first 9 week program I increased my PRs in squat,DL and bench with a bit over 20%. GM is up 50% now.
Have my off week now, going for new PRs next week.
I agree with others. Start with just the first 4 workouts/week for awhile to see how your body reacts. Get accustomed to this workload, then you can add extra work focusing on the weaknesses that you find on those 4 workouts.
do those workouts you planned on doing on tues and thursday before your work out…but keep them low intensity…eat a lot of food and sleep and rest a lot on your off days…bm