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JWestland
Cheers, that makes a lot of sense - I sometimes switch to 3x10 if I'm tired or against the clock so I'm not adverse to mixing it up a bit. Last couple of weeks the squat & bench have been pretty tough so I'm happy to switch to 3x5 & see how that goes - i read an article / paper on diminishing returns on increased sets fairly recently (was linked in here a while back I think) but it's hard to get out of the mindset that "moar=better".
At ~76kg bw my (5x5) bench is 83kg & squat is 115kg, which isn't exactly earth shattering, but is as much as it's ever been so i know it'll take a serious effort to put another 5-10% onto that with the current routine - will maybe switch to 3x5 or even 5x3 with the heavy stuff and see where that goes, then fill in the gaps with 1000 bicep curls & get mad swole bro