Is it ok to cut back on some lifting days if not feeling too well?

Of course it's ok. Training programs are not set in stone, they need to be modified because of health and other circumstances. The principles are the same for running and lifting.

Push yourself to increase every week. If you just go by how you feel you won't progress. If you can't do it then start at a lower weight and progress from there doing more reps.

Coach - Ok, thats good because some days I'm an aminal and others I'm fatigued so I can't handle it. It's just weird that the guy says do it has hard as possible every time but if you don't add 5lb. every WRKT(its 2 days a week full body, 1 day calisthenics) that you're not progressing. I'm just gonna adjust the weight to challenge myself on that particular day instead going for PRS every 3 -4days.

Push yourself - I DO! But I also understand the principle of diminishing returns. If I try to crush EVERY lifting session, I'll break down especially since I'm lifting more than once a week. I follow one intensity day(monday), thursday for calisthenics, nothing too hard just pushups,dips, pullups etc.., and saturday for a volume day. All full body workouts. I can't go into the well EACH time or else I'll be cooked.

Listen to your body. Some programs use omega wave technology others use PH some lactate measurements, some heart rate for these reasons. If you feel like crap and had a workout of 12 x400 in 65 seconds planned you might scale it down. The same applies to strength training. A scaled down workout or another day of rest won't hurt in the long run, mono, a stress fracture or hormone issues from over training will.

Assuming you are trying to get faster, you won't progress very far. The point of the lifting is to increase running efficiently, running power, and late stage power. It's also another stress on the body.

I stop lifting relatively early, maybe 6 weeks before peak. I'm just lifting about 8 month a year, and the second cycle of lifting I hit a plateau on lifting but am still running fast each cycle (on cycle three now).

Definitely be patient on lifting gains. Form is top priority. Skipping a day will likely have a smaller effect on your running than trying to power through with bad form.

Push Yourself wrote:

Push yourself to increase every week. If you just go by how you feel you won't progress. If you can't do it then start at a lower weight and progress from there doing more reps.

I am taking the above literally and saying "Bull".

There are times where backing off is necessary. You get better during recovery not by just pushing yourself blindly.

At times REST is the most important thing you can do and is all too often neglected.

I remember hearing Steve Scott talk about how he would adjust workouts based on feel. If he got to the track and was supposed to do some many 200s in such and such a time and after warming up and doing one or two was not hitting the times or feeling like he could complete the workout that he would adjust and sometimes bag it and come back the next day.

Joe Vigil is a master at adjusting workouts after talking with his athletes.

Thanks everyone for the advice. I'ts just bothering when I skip a lift or dial down. I hate it, it makes me feel insecure but health 1st!

Speaking of Vigil, at hjis clinics he told us coaches to read Hand Selye's book The Stress of Life so we could understand how the body adapts to stress.