Hey Eric,

As usual thanks for your responses!

I think my confusion comes in part because to me its a two part questions but I asked it in a one part questions. I was already thinking about cycling my routines from strength to hypertrophy and back and forth but this week I started to feel over trained

Its not that I am going to complete failure, but up until last week I was hitting all 3 sets of 5, and now im missing reps as I added weight. Which is to be expected. It wasnt till wed/fri that I started to wonder if im overtraining.

on wednesday I went from 220-225 on bench. but missed one rep on the 2nd set and two on the 3rd... Now like I said I didnt see this as overtraining but I started to notice other things... On tuesday I killed in on the eliptical 5min jog, 6min (30sec sprint/30 sec jog), 5 min cool down... some friday when I went to do the same HIIT I warmed up... got 1.5 min into the jog sprints and had to stop. Felt real fatigued... bad headache (which i also noticed on thursday afternoon), and all my joints hurt in my legs... I also have been real tired since then, even with sleep i feel the need for naps. Like the one i just took.

I'm also starting to think the above because last time I did a 3 x 5 type routine I went from 190 on Bench to 240 on bench adding 5 lbs every week consistently before i struggled and that was without squats and no deads... now do legs every week and i got stuck on 220 for bench... which leads me to believe 3x5 w/ HIIT is leading me to overtraining... IMO

NOW BACK TO THE FIRST QUESTION. CHANGING ROUTINES.

Now I havent been super consistent with the gym in the last 3 years but I finally got some motivation from hell and im pushing harder than ever before for the last 5 weeks. But everytime I have lifted in the past 3 years was a 3 x 4-6 or 3 x 5 or 5x5... Im starting to wonder about playing around with rep ranges to see that works for me so thats what I asked both parts of question

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