Breaking up Templates

I’m getting ready to finish up Strength I at the end of this year, and I am trying to plan a path forward. I’ve alternated between Powerbuilding I and Hypertrophy I for awhile, but I am getting great results with Strength I. Based on the what’s next guidance in the template, I was planning on starting the new year with Hypertrophy II. I was then going to follow that with the new Low Fatigue Strength template. The reasoning to do this rather than Powerlifting II is because I have no intention of competing, however, I want to make strength my primary goal with hypertrophy being secondary to support increases in strength.

While thinking through all of this, I was wondering what your thoughts were on mixing blocks from two separate templates rather than just running them back to back. For instance, rather than running Hypertrophy II straight through for 10 weeks followed by Low Fatigue Strength straight through for 16 weeks, could it be worthwhile to run the first block of Hypertrophy II followed by a block or two of Low Fatigue Strength, then repeat the process with the second block of Hypertrophy II followed by the remainder of Low Fatigue Strength?

I think I would run the Low Fatigue 3-day template next. I’d skip the peaking phase and provided you don’t feel like you need a break from the Big Three, either do the other 3-day template included in the low-fatigue template (Med ISF) or one of the 4-day templates. If you do need a break, I’d run a block or two of the hypertrophy or bodybuilding templates- basically as long as necessary to feel like you want to train the big 3 again.

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Your guidance is very much appreciated. I will follow that path and see how it goes. So it does seem like it is at least reasonable then to use only a block of a particular template from time to time rather than always doing an entire template straight through. That answers one of the bigger questions I’ve had with these templates and will definitely help me going forward. Thanks again, these templates and your site have been critical to my development!