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