Starting Strength squat frequency

Hi all, so I started off as 145 lbs at 5'11" just over a year ago, always been a skinny kid. Through bodyweight exercises and increased meal frequency I managed to put on a measly 5 pounds before finally getting into the free weights. The sad part is that this took almost a full year. Now after a few months of lifting (and finally eating some damn food) I'm up to 170 lbs with fairly low body fat % (can clearly see top 4 abs and faintly see the last row), but progress stalled, probably because of my "split" routine. I was only training each muscle group 1 time a week (Mon - legs, Tues - chest, Thurs - back/bis, Fri - shoulders/tris), so I'm guessing that was the problem. Anyway I've briefly read up on Rippetoe's SS, and am seriously considering doing this program.

However, squatting 3 times a week seems as if there wouldn't be enough time to recover. And deadlifts and squats on same day? :S When I was doing the split routine, after leg day, I wouldn't even dream of doing squats again for another 3-4 days at least (that's when the soreness would be all gone). Hell, when back day rolled around and it was deadlift time, sometimes I wasn't even fully recovered from the squats on Monday. It seems to me that squatting every other day would lead to overtraining, especially since the weight on the bar is supposed to increase every session? I mean, I'll try it this week, but if there's an alternate method out there that I don't know about, please do elaborate. Or is the squatting without full recovery just something I'll have to face and get used to? Like I said, I've always been a skinny kid, and from what I read that means that I need more recovery time. If anyone's had experiences on this program, do share, it'd be much appreciated.

Thanks!
 
Rips program is a beginners program and looking at your stats you might have outgrown it. Try it anyway, but if you can't do linear progress you gotta do some periodisaton work. Look at Louie Simmons, or Mehdi's intermediate program, or Jim Wendler 531, or get Rip's second book (practical programming)
 
Hey man,

What do you do on your off days. It seems to me like you need to do some recovery work. Recovery is very important if you want to be able to train a the highest level you can the next day, or later in that week.

Let me know if you need assistance on this
 
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