A decent app I found

[chanduthemagician]

Being one of those guys that has problems doing a light day with low reps, this looks interesting to me.   I tend to go heavy with low reps and even if I try to go light weight and low reps I always end up loading more than I planned. I'm going to give this a try for 12 weeks and see where my lifts end up compared to what they predict.  I plan to follow the weights they program for me unless the weights turn out to be too heavy in which case I'll do a little less.  The free version has a lot of nice features and I'm trying that for now.  May pay later, we'll see how it goes.   

stronglifts.com/apps/

[pierinifitness]

I enjoyed my time in StrongLifts land about 7 years ago and made nice gains. As an older person, I found three days a week too much so modified it a little. Enjoy.

[chanduthemagician]

3x per week may be too much for me too. As easy as it is in the beginning, it's not but we'll see as the weights go up. I will just put two days of rest between workouts or more than that even if needed.

[pierinifitness]

Sept 16, 2019 0:56:04 GMT chanduthemagician said:

3x per week may be too much for me too. As easy as it is in the beginning, it's not but we'll see as the weights go up. I will just put two days of rest between workouts or more than that even if needed.

I found myself wanting to do more than just StrongLifts, as if that wasn't enough like, for example, weighted pull-ups, bar dips and dumbbell bench press work so twice a week was what I did.  It is easier when you start but it doesn't take long before the heavy gets heavy with 5x5.  I played around with 3x3 and 8x3 but probably enjoyed the most what I call a singles progression which I'd do once a week.  I'd give myself about 8 to 10 singles, depending on how it went, started at an entry light weight and ramp up the load depending on how strong I was feeling that day.  Then, I'd drop down to about 65% of 1RM and do a max rep set to get a little hypertrophy feel.  I really liked this singles progression workout and did the same with weighted pull-ups.  

[chanduthemagician]

Thanks for the elaboration