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If you picked your starting weights correctly, nothing should feel particularly heavy in the first workout. Also, there is no "PRs after four weeks" rule in SS, since its assumed that the trainee...

No, it's fine. You're not going to trash the program by doing that.

So you're getting stronger and gaining weight, but are losing motivation because you're not "feeling it"?

If I were you I'd worry more about actual results than vague "feelings". And get any idea...

I suppose you can associated "football clean" with poorly executed/coached power cleans, but it's really beside the point IMO. The OP is asking about power cleans vs. full cleans.

And to echo...

Olympic lifters are doing front squats, back squats, snatches, cleans, jerks, heavy pulls, RDL's, etc., and they're doing some combination of those in almost every workout. It's not like they have a...

Not exactly. Technically a push press is an overhead press with some leg drive to get the bar off the shoulders, but the shoulders and arms still doing the majority of the work.

A power jerk,...

Never would have occurred to me to NOT count the weight of the bar towards the total. It's 20 kg/45 lbs (at least it should be), and you're lifting it, so why would you intentionally leave it out?
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You don't want to miss workouts if it can be avoided, but if you're on vacation and there's no gym, it is what it is.

Will it set you back? Maybe a little, probably not much. You might need to...

No, he should do the routine the way it's written. Get his 5 reps for 3 sets on each exercise and increase the weight every single workout. If you don't think doing that for months at a time will...

Might be ok to take a week off (not likely to hurt), but bear in mind that the 4 week ramp up to your current 5 rep maxes that's built into Starr's routine acts as a deload of sorts. Yes you're...

Another massive 8 year bump...

"Adapting" is actually exactly what you want to happen. You throw a weighted exercise at your body that pushes its limits, and it responds by "adapting" - i.e. getting stronger and adding muscle.
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No. One day of eating less isn't going to kill your progress. Don't overthink things.

Worrying about BMR is probably not worth your time. It's the number of calories you'd need to maintain bodily functions if you did absolutely NO activity at all, which is almost never going to be...

Slowing down is completely expected, and the first place you're likely to need smaller jumps are the overhead press and bench press. Lots of people eventually have to move to just 1-2 lb jumps on...

How do you mean "on Practical Programming"? It's not a specific workout routine, it's a book about different training approaches and theory for lifters ranging from beginners to advanced/elite.
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Strong 7 year bump. Doubt the OP is even around anymore.

Weight gain has nothing to do with what you're doing in the gym, and everything to do with how many calories you're eating. Lifting weights doesn't make you gain weight. All it does is determine...

No.

You can do all the "slamming" and "blasting" you want, but it's not going to happen.

Do as you wish, but I suspect you'll better off overall, and have a better chance of making real...

Doesn't much matter. It's an accessory exercise, and of little importance to the core of the program. If you were asking to do heavy CG bench press as your triceps "accessory" movement, it would...