It depends on a lot of things. I would try 390 again. If you go to 395, chances are you'll do 4 and 1 again. In general if you're not recovering, check your sleep, check your protein, check your form, check other sources of stress in your life, then maybe consider switching your program a bit (eg try 3x3 instead of 1x5).

@ i ended up doing 395. I was able to pull all 5 reps!

We're discussing it! A lot of fun ideas being bounced around right now. Come the new year we'll really get cooking.

The sound of our lifters enjoying their gains!

Can't beat the deadlift

Hahahahaha, I had forgotten about “fahve”. Dude, thank you 🙏

Do you remember, “that’s not heavy!!”??

Now this is a good idea

Definitely no cable machine. Any exercise done on a cable machine, there's a better alternative with the barbell.

@@startingstrengthgyms totally not ur just being a purist, there's totally benefits to cables lets just be Honest here

@@KnuffelBear Like what?

@@startingstrengthgyms nothing actually u right, but also barbell tbh, the real thing is just to pick up real heavy rocks in the forest

Nobody tell him.

Because “handling maximum poundages” is not the only priority.

@@startingstrengthgyms If the rationale for choosing lifts is incorporating the most muscle over the longest effective range, and the rationale for the entire program is that poundage drives growth, what argument is there against what I described? What muscles are less involved by widening the squat? We aren't "doing quads," we're squatting. If a wide squat adds weight to the bar, every muscle involved--the same muscles--will get stressed more.

Go as wide as you like as long as you're not compromising range of motion or keeping your joints in a favorable anatomical alignment. That's what we do. If you go too wide, knees start to collapse to hit depth, producing unnecessary torsion at the knee.

This bar from Texas Power Bars is the best general purpose bar you can get. If there was a better one, we'd use it.