I've been researching on this a bit and Bryan Haycock over at the meso board was saying that a very effective way to increase your 5 RM weeks after you already cannot progressively load any further is to increase the sets. Of course to do this, you'd have to drop an exercise or two, keeping only the best ones. At least this way you'll increase TUL to continue growing. I'd personally rather milk the 5's for all their worth rather than do negatives. Not like I could do them anyways since I always fly solo.

Just posting this as food for thought....

Here's an example:

- 2 weeks of the 5 rep mesocycle...
- Gained some strength and was able to extend for another week...
- Hit your 5 RM for every exercise at the end of that third week....
- Added another set for the major lifts, dumped the minor ones OR at least deducted a set or two....

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