Dioufy wrote:Deserter wrote:Dioufy wrote:I run, like I always have, on the days I don't lift. I lift on Mon, Wed and Fri and run Tues, Thurs and Sat. To keep increasing my squat, I need recovery time, which I don't have. That severly hampers my squat. On the days I don't lift, my legs are dead, thus majorly hampering my ability to run.
Running shouldn't be impeding your recovery time as it's not the same functionality as squatting - there are plenty of guys out there who can squat way north of the 100kg mark and still do 5km in under 20 mins.
It sounds to me like you're going into overkill on your squatting as your legs shouldn't be 'dead' on a constant basis - that reeks of over-training.
3 sets of 5 reps, adding new weight each time is hard. It hurts like hell and does impede running for mere mortals like me.
Dioufy, there are two things at play here:
1) Body adaptation - I suspect you actually haven't stuck with it long enough to give your body time to adjust. It will, as many other 'mere mortals' (including me) have found.
2) Hurting like hell each time implies to me that you're trying to do too much weight, too soon. This is from the starting strength wiki:
"failure training for a novice is generally not going to produce the intended effect and is unnecessary and potentially harmful. Training form/technique tends to break down significantly in the novice who is exercising to failure, which can lead to injury. It can also reinforce technique flaws since you will consistently perform improper technique. What you do over and over becomes ingrained in your basic motor function. If you tend to have a shitty bench when you hit failure, the more often you hit failure, the more often your technique is compromised, the more often the improper technique is reinforced.
Additionally, novices have a much greater incidence of asymmetric balance, i.e. "my left arm is stronger than my right arm!" This results in significant asymmetric loading during pressing and pulling exercises, which can end up shredding a shoulder/rotator cuff or tearing up the trainee's spinal erectors because of an imbalanced load on the spine.
You should never need to take any of your sets to failure as a novice. You only count repetitions that you complete 100% on your own. If your spotter touches the bar AT ALL, then the rep doesn't count. If your technique isn't solid (i.e. if you bounce the bar off your chest, or don't go deep enough in the squat), then the rep doesn't count.
Your first set should be a slight challenge, your second set a reasonable challenge, and your third set of each exercise should be quite difficult to complete, but you SHOULD be able to complete it with no assistance from anyone else, while maintaining proper technique."
The bottom line is that if you're following these protocols and give your body time to adapt, the problem will go away.
DD 
I read the first line and though "sh*t, what did I say that was so bad?!"