re: Weight training - any pointers on how to cycle between hypertrophy and strength?

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3 sets of 5 wouldn't be that beneficial even at heavier weight?

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Wouldn’t be that beneficial unless you want to get strong.

If you want a good “pump” do sets of 10.
If you want to get strong, you need to lift weights heavy enough so that 10 reps aren’t possible.

If you want to be strong and lean, you need to get strong first and then get lean, while understanding that getting lean will probably mean a loss of absolute strength.

As far as your question about cycling between strength and hypertrophy….if you get stronger, your muscles will be bigger.
That’s not to say you will look like a bodybuilder without doing bodybuilder style workouts, but if you progressively do compound lifts at heavy weights, you will get big and strong if you are eating and sleeping enough.

I think you should do a novice linear progression on the main compound lifts until you can’t and then start to worry about more complex programming.