Flawed when you say that you were finding a lot of your workouts extremely difficult, what exactly do you mean? Do you mean you are loading the bar but missing reps and/or sets, or that it's just moving extremely slow? Or that you can't load the bar at all? Or you had to put less on the bar? Or a combination of any of the above?

It is much more likely at that intensity range that if you are overloading then it is volume overloading. Yes the HIIT stresses the cns to some extent but you've have a hard time quantifying it. Certainly you could just do some low intensity steady state stuff for a bit.

I doubt very much you need an entire week off.

The reason I ask all of this is because pity suggested that you keep/raise the intensity and drop the volume. Which is probable the way to go IMO. But you asked again if you should lighten so I see you're still not sure what to do. So more detail would be needed to help.

I would like to point out that if you are still doing "3x5" training which I assume is SS style then having separate hypertrophy phases at this point is probably a little silly. Ross was speaking of his hyp phases being "middleground", and of course I'll let him speak for himself, but I think he means middleground strength/mass instead of jumping off a cliff and doing nothing but 12's or something.

But 3x5 is just a lower volume more aggressive loading verision of 5x5, in a way. Which IS middleground strength/mass. Now what Ross is saying about going from a more pure strength phase to a hypertrophy phase makes since. But going from a middleground beginner/intermediate phase to a "hypertrophy" phase sounds decidedly inefficient. The fact is you are treating the 3x5 as way more intensity than it is, if you do that.

Doing everything to failure is not a good idea, btw. Failure works well in certain instances for certain things but not the way you're doing it.

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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.