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As long as you can get stronger doing it, then why not? I already increased my max by 90 LBS since lifting one day per week for over two years. This includes two separate two-month periods of rest (both trying to heal injuries; one from doing deadlifts and the other one not) . I'm just now emerging out of the second two-month period of rest (no lifting) in the last few years. I started with bigger weights than I could lift, to practice getting my form off the floor right, because that's just from flexing your torso and shoulders correctly, directly against the weight of the bar, and once you flex your torso and shoulders correctly, with weight you're capable of lifting, you will lift the weight.Keep me posted. This 1 day per week strategy is so counterintuitive. It's interesting.
I couldn't lift 400 LBS, or 380, and wound up eventually stepping down to 320 LBS, which I could do three times. This is 90 LBS more than I used to lift (230 LBS), way back before I started lifting.
Before this rest period I was lifting 370 LBS, so I have lost strength in the last few months from not lifting. Over two years of lifting once a week, I increased my strength from being able to lift 230 LBS to lifting 370 LBS, and then I took a rest for two months and now I can only lift 320 LBS, but that's still quite a bit stronger than only being able to lift 230 LBS. I retained a lot of the strength gains over the two months, without touching a weight the whole two months, because I needed to rest, to try to recover from an injury.
I don't know how long it would take me to lose my strength all the way back down to only lifting 230 LBS. Probably at least six or 12 months of not lifting at all, maybe 18 months to get everything.
You can get stronger only lifting one day a week. You just have to target strength building, as efficient as possible. Mr. Mark Rippetoe is a 'starting point' if you don't know what to do, but you like the idea of getting stronger.