Thread: Is it worth it?

If you are progressing consistently as is, I would say just milk the 5x5. It is a workable system all by itself.

There are better ways to go about it than what you suggest imo. First, I would eliminate all the other things that may cause you to stall (like excessive volume, no food, little protien etc.).

When you determine something must be added, choose a quality assistance movement that has universally acceptable carryover to the lift you are trying to improve. For benching, close grip presses, lockouts, floors, board preeses. Pick one of those and hit your 2 sets for say 6-10 reps. Rotate the movements as you cease to be able to progress from one week to the next or in a pre-planned manner if you wish. Lots of ideas are possible, but it seems like what you suggest would just waist valuable training time and energy by fiddling around with puny weight compared to what you are capable of lifting if strength is what you are after.

Thanks.