Well you could call hitting some PR's on the fourth week "peaking" if you want but it would just be semantics. This is why I preach about this stuff because people are doing it without having any clue as to WHY they are doing it. If your only goal is to set PR's afte a certain time then you don't need a formal "loading" period. You can do whatever the hell you like as long as it results in you setting some pr's.

Assuming that the program you have layed out is enough volume, the idea is that you are doing planned over-reaching. You are not letting fatigue subside but instead you are letting it build up to some extent of the weeks. Recovery is not taking place completely. Based on that, then, the pr's you get on ther frouth week can't be the extent of your potential ability because you are working in a fatigue and non-recovered state. If those pr's were it, then you should be able to continue loading and set some more pr's. Assuming you CAN'T continue the same total work and set new pr's then you should assume that once your body has had some relative rest and as more recovery takes place that some of that fitness you gained during the loading period you will be able to manifest. So in this case you are showing the strength gains. That means after the first week of 3x3 at the same weight as the last week of loading you put 5 or 10 pounds on and do another week of 3x3 and so on.....I'm not saying it's going to work that is just a best case scenerio.

Like Sleazy said the gains you got on the loading are nothing to sneeze at so just to make a long story short...yes you should extend the "deloading" setup and try to load the bar. But you're gong from 15 reps to 9 reps so the whole thing looks a little wonky to me. And your deads are not really being deloaded.

I think you would be better off doing 5X5.

Although I do over-reaching and peaking phases I don't do it using the 5x5 program so I'll let other guys speak on that.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.