i am honestly curious why you should not do the dft 5x5 too. yes, it is a fairly advanced program and based on your thread in the training forum you might be better suited to a program such as ripptoes ss, but if you are just using the basic dft 5x5 template for a linear progression rather than the various cycles that are written in the sticky i would think that you would be ok progressing that way. plus, in my opinion, you need to be in the correct frame of mind for a program. if you were on ripptoes and you didn't progress for whatever reason (lack of consistency, not eating enough, etc.) and you are down on the program and YOU don't think that it wont work for you then ultimately it wont. you have to have confidence in the program that you are doing and think that it will work for it to actually work, otherwise i think you will just end up in a rut banging your head against the wall (much like you were when you did ss).

my bigger question is why was your squat at 165 for 5x5 on the first workout and then all the way up to 270 5x5 in the thursday workout?????