Yea I think thats a good strategy. I just cant squat or DL cause i have a herniated disc. I just suck at fatigue management. I have trouble backing down. Do you do deloads? What do you do when you plateau or feel like your just moving backwards?
Not gonna pretend I care about progressing in strength nowadays, but I'll answer what I did in the past.
When stuck on the same weight, say bench or ohp for example. First of all, of course increase the calories (fat and carbs) and adjust pre workout snacks for the right time. Then if that didn't help I threw in something like dbol (you can also do test base for this purpose or even halo I hear is good). Usually that helped and within a week or so I did break through the plateau.
As for moving backwards, I find it happens when I over train slightly, then I decrease the volume and adjust the frequency, while keeping intensity (weight on the bar). Remove some exercises that are not primary and go to the drawing board and see if my diet is good enough, usually I find flaws with tracking when it happens. Also in some cases taking a week or so off, helps a lot.
Squats and deadlifts, nobody said you have to do them, leg press is just as good if you're not in to powerlifting (competing) and deadlift itself some experts say it's quite dangerous and risk to reward ratio is not worth it for regular people not in to competition. I can't remember but some pro PL or something said it on youtube, he is well know, but I just can't remember it rn.
So, man take a look in to your diet, there is always something to fix, it's never perfect, not that it should be. But good enough is perfect. It's the easiest thing to slip on whether cutting or bulking or maintaining.
