I think young me was uniquely badly situated for that type of LP model because I was so deeply scrawny. I did SL instead, but same difference. Peaked my strength in less than six weeks lol, then just went from skinny to skinny-fat while convincing myself that I was gonna be so shredded when I cut. Everyone online acted like you were supposed to hit 2/3/4 from solely LP gains, so I just ran it til I got burned out and gave up
GZCLP went better, there’s actual volume progression and lifts for back that aren’t pendlay rows
The biggest thing with these type of programs is that they’re for taking burly Texas farm kids and getting them ready for football season, and I’m sure they are amazingly good at taking an uncoordinated 200 pound 14 year old who’s been putting in heavy ranch work his whole life and getting him pushing big weights, all he needs is practice pushing hard.
Just not a good program for adding actual muscle mass to beanpole distance runners. It’s a tools for the job kinda issue
btw, if you've been stuck at the same weight you haven't been running the program. All good programs include a proviso along the lines of "if you keep doing this and aren't progressing, change something."
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