KISS programing

[JAM]

Andy,
Thanks for all you do here; I'll try to keep this short.

34years old
Male
215 lbs (down from 230 in Jan)
Small business owner (work 900 hours a week)
Old PRs (430 squat, 315 bench, 495 deadlift, 230 press, 10 dead hang chins)

I was making decent progress on a split routine modeled after one of the programs in PPST3. Doing 5x5 on bench/squat at beginning of week, and 5x1/1x1 on press/deadlift at end of week. Following week was the reverse. However, I had to switch to your KISS method due to time constraints (again, small business owner), and i wanted to add in some conditioning.

Initially everything kind of took a nose dive, probably from the added conditioning and weight loss, but after 8 weeks i started tweaking things by adding backoff sets and switching up accessories. Got the upper body lifts to move: Bench is in PR territory, Press is coming back, but Squats and Deadlifts are just poop.

Since i don't feel beat up or run down, my thoughts are that i'm just not generating enough stress on the squats with the setup. So, i'm looking for some advice on the options I've come up with:
1 - Switch back to the old program. Drop accesories lifts if time requires.
or
2- Keep current program but make a "Squat destruction day" (for lack of a better phrase). Pick the day that i'm likely to most often have the most time and best rest, etc, and just POUND squats with lots of volume.

Am I thinking about his the right way? Other ideas on things i can try?

Thanks again,
Josh Miller

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Can you do some light/medium squats on your deadlift day?

[JAM]

Can you do some light/medium squats on your deadlift day?

I have, but not consistently. The end of the week tends to be chaos, and press/deadlift gets smashed on one day, with no time of other shit.

I'll try to rearrange the schedule so that these consistently happen. Something like 3 sets of 5 at 80% of the "heavy" day work?

So:
1-Bench, Dips
2-Squats, Weighted Chins, RDLs
3-Rowing conditioning
4-Press, Some other arm shit
5-Light Squats, Deadlifts
6-Running Conditioning, BW Chins
7-Off

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Looks good. No reason it can't work