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Adapting GZCLP to 2 days per week

I've been hitting the gym 3 times a week for about two years now and seen pretty good results. Well, life happened and I can't really find the time for that anymore, so I'm trying to adapt my routine for twice a week. Was wondering if anybody has an opinion on it.

For most of my fitness journey I've been doing GZCLP with variation exercises for tier 2 and the rep range for tier 1 modified to 3x5, then 3x4, then 3x3, because who even has the time to do 10 sets of 1 rep? Now that I will only be going to the gym twice a week my genius idea is the smash the 4 GZCLP days into 2, while following a similar progression scheme to the original. Something like this:

Day 1:

  • T1 Barbell squat
  • T1 Overhead press
  • T2 Romanian deadlift
  • T2 Incline dumbbell bench press
  • T3 Lat pulldown

Day 2:

  • T1 Deadlift
  • T1 Barbell bench press
  • T2 Split squats
  • T2 Dumbbell shoulder press
  • T3 Lat pulldown

So far I've done one week of this and feeling ok. I tried to superset the T2 lifts, but the general fatigue is getting a bit too much that way so I'll probably stop. Any thoughts on what I can change or do you guys think this is a balanced enough workout?

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