How to Become an Intermediate with Nick D | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #59

Ray and Nick review the steps in the NLP and go through progressions to intermediate programming for each lift and examples of common issues with making changes.

01:47 Squat progression - Novice to Intermediate

03:37 Start with the basics - only make changes when needed

06:22 Technique/form

09:23 Adding a light day

11:59 Changes are individual dependent

13:51 Go up on the first set of five

15:33 Anything that's not adding five pounds to a workout isn't NLP

16:54 40-year-old/last steps for progression/decide which day is the heavy day

19:19 Triples

21:44 Considerations on program changes at this level

24:00 Women will move to threes pretty early

25:42 Programming issues - determining what change to make

26:36 Too much stress or not enough?

30:16 Not enough stress

31:49 If you make a change, make a small change

37:48 Standard progression on the deadlift

41:15 Simplifying things

44:37 Alternating the deadlift with another pulling movement

52:19 Making 10-pound jumps on the deadlift

55:09 Bench progression

57:30 Press progression

1:03:10 Nick's clients grinding through reps

1:04:39 Post novice - continue increasing stress