Weird rest requirement disparity.
So I've narrowed down the culprit of what's keeping me from being able to push my sets across up on my upper body movements is rest time between sets. The 10 minute experiment on my bench press produced a perfect sets across PR I hadn't been able to generate for a few weeks. Now I might be able to fiddle with this and bring it down a minute or two, but I know 5 or even 6 won't do it, 7 probably won't either. What's strange to me, is that my heavy squat sets require less rest than this, but I'm physically much more drained by them. I'm left sucking wind and cascading sweat for minutes afterwards, but I can get back under there in 5-7 minutes and do it all again. I even sometimes end up getting a bit nauseous after pushing out set 3. I feel nowhere near this beat up after doing heavy bench or press sets, but I seem to require more rest to complete the next set out nonetheless. I wonder, has anyone else encountered this kind of disparity? Is it potentially just because my bench and press are further along in regards to their potential than my squat is, even though the absolute weights are lower? Is there something I should try and change? Should I just work in whatever rest I need and ignore the inconsistency? I was thinking about maybe trying a 10% drop and actually lowering the rest interval a little on the upper body in combination with that, as an experiment on one lift, while just working with the increased rest interval on the other. More experienced folks here could probably predict how that would turn out.