Originally Posted by Eric3237

Good luck on this. I don't know if your planning on just blasting this over and over or going back to the 5x5. Now on that I know you did what was necessary to your schedule but I'd like to point out that the 5x5 you ran and the DFHT need not be viewed as two separarte things with the 5x5 just some thing you do.

It could fit into an accumulation and intensification set-up so you might have a week of peaking/deloading and then the 5x5 where the first few weeks should be like a vacation. But your recovery ability should be through the roof and I guarantee you should be able to improve past all your maxes significantly. So in other words you have that fitness you gained through accumulation and then you use the single factor 5x5 to display that fitness and generate higher levels of intensity. In some ways this could even be better that loading/unloading continuously. This is just to expand on what 0311 said about DFHT complimenting the 5x5. In fact they are both complimetary to each other when before you were looking at SF 5X5 as "something to do cuz it's a good program". Of course there are many things you could do.

I know none of this may help you now but I only say it to suggest a way of thinking. That is thinking about all your training as a continuum, not as "this program that program".