Starting After Extended Break from Lifting

Training
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about 6 months ago, I had to stop weightlifting for awhile, mainly due to lack of safety equipment at home and my refusal to sign a two year contract at a gym that didn’t really suit me.

I finally have a squat rack, so I can restart Stronglifts, but I wasn’t sure where to reset my lifts to. I arbitrarily picked a 50% deload. My question is whether it would be wise to add more lift days until I got a little closer to where I was before, or should I just run the program as is from the deload?

Just to be clear, by adding in lift days, I mean to run the program (for example):

Workout A on Monday, B on Tuesday, rest Wednesday , and run A&B back to back again on Thursday and Friday? Would this help me to catch up a little quicker, or would it set me up for failure later?

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It’s 6 months. It’s like you are new to lifting.

Start small, SL goes up very fast. And follow the program.

Programs are written to be followed, not to be changed at a whim.

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[quote]JFG wrote:
It’s 6 months. It’s like you are new to lifting.[/quote]

Thank you. this is what I had figured, which is why I deloaded so much.

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Do the program as written. That includes the starting weights, which from what I’ve read (I’m not too familiar with Stronglifts), is 50% of your CURRENT 5RM. If you don’t know what that is, find out.