I just got back into lifting 7 months ago or so and I am working on power lifting as a hobby. At first I was heavy into Bench for a 11 week cycle where 3 weeks are into 5 sets of ten then it goes down to a final week of sets of 6, 4, 3 2, and 1. I got great results . My workout was bench/squat Monday and Thursday and dead lift on Tuesday and Friday. My squat was max weight I could lift for 1 set of 20 reps and my dead lift was light due to the fact that I never really used it before. I now squat following my bench routine and that has gone up quite well in 2 cycles and I just finished a dead lift program pushing up based on my max lift and jumped that up 50 lbs in 10 weeks. My bench had gone up the first 2 cycles with great results so I went up 10% of the last max for this cycle. I hit week 7 and crash. Week 5 was four sets of 5 .Week 6 was of one set of 6 and four sets of 5 at a slightly lower weight than the last week. I hit week 7 that was 4 sets of 5 and a weight increase slight higher than week 5 and there it fell apart. I now was down to my last cycle work out and I could not lift what I had done with ease 10 weeks ago. Is my pushing squat and dead lift killing my bench? I am clean and only take vitamins and whey shakes following a work out. MY life has not changed other than pushing the squat and dead lift.