Anybody Into physical culture?

Congrats on the bench marks, but I am sure you could have pushed your numbers a lot further on the basic SS progression. Your issue is clearly recovery. Did you ever switch to doing 2xweek squats on SS? It is recommended for the "advanced novice" as is deadlifting only every other week.

In addition to this you should be eating like a beast but sleeping like a baby.

I started lifting seriously about 5 or 6 months ago to raise my base strength level for my main sport (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu). I'd never done any proper weight training before and have been quite surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.

I started on Rippetoe's Starting Strength for a few months but fairly quickly got to the point where squatting three times a week was preventing me from recovering for BJJ sessions so I switched to Wendler's 5/3/1 which suits me quite well.

I broke 1xbodyweight deadlifts a few weeks back (110kg) and am sneaking up on bodyweight squats (up to 90kg there so far)

My pressing (bench and OH) are my weakest areas by far though. Going to start ramping up the assistance work on those lifts to try and bring them up from "embarrasing" to merely "weak"

The thread title caught my eye as I train at Physical Culture gym in Putney. Anybody else there?