My general advise would be to find ways to decrease volume and raise intensity on your priority lifts. Think quality always over quantity.

I advise that it is time to get away from the idea of trying to increase absolute strength on a lift at the same time as you are trying to gain a lot of size from that lift. Separate your circa maximal lifting from your lifting with more volume. Combining the two only works well for beginner intermediates, imo. So move toward more intensity based (as percentage of 1RM) for a main lift and use assistances and accessories, etc...to accumulate volume, assist the big lifts, train the core, hypertrophy, what have you...it's all a side effect of a proper distribution of stress, imo.

But the idea in all this is you have to accept one main goal. If "mass" is uppermost in your mind over strength..it won't work. You'd be better off training for "mass" even though that would be less efficient than continuing to build strength. But if you keep strength uppermost and really believe that mass is intimately related to that and is a side effect of the training (and a lot of eating) than you'll be more successful. It's all in your attitude toward what you are doing.

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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.