Some very good info Darkhorse, thank you, I havent read through Erics bits yet but I will later, im sure there's some very good info in Erics contribution to

"Personally I prefer keeping everything heavy while dropping the volume down"

I noticed this comment in the deloading bit, just say on a 5x5 program some guy needs to deload, instead of the usual weight reset and work back up and beyond, would staying at the same weight and doing 3x3 instead of 5x5 for a couple of weeks, and then continuing with the same weight at 5x5 when your recovered be a good idea? a good way of deloading?

For example some one squating 300 for 5x5 misses reps, feels overtrained etc
So instead of resetting he does 300 for 3x3 for a couple of weeks(until recovered) and then continues with 300 for 5x5, and then adds weight (hopefully) to the bar for a few weeks after.
Hope I make sense