re: Something I've been doing that's helped my strength #GAINZ..

531 is pretty dumbed down. First you need to figure out your maxes on bench, squat, deads and over head press. Then you use 90% of those numbers as your training maxes.

Week 1
3x5-65%/75%/85%

Week 2
3x3-70%/80%/90%

Week 3
5/3/1-75%/85%/95%

Those are your rep schemes for the main lifts every week.

Monday-OHP
Tuesday-Squats
Wednesday-Rest
Thursday-Bench
Friday-Deadlifts

Last sets are taken to near failure.

Your accessory lifts need to make sense, but you don’t need a ton of them. So on bench day, do a push, a pull and some type of core exercise. Keep that in mind for the rest of the main lifts. I would advise doing it for volume. Sets of 10 and heavy. Start at 40-50% and progress incrementally.