A three-day intermediate program that splits the week into one volume day, one light day and one intensity day, progressing weekly instead of every session.
Monday is volume: 5 x 5 squat at about 90 percent of Friday's best, plus bench and rows. Wednesday is light and technical, around 80 percent for 2 x 5, with pressing swapped for the opposite of Monday. Friday is intensity: work up to one hard set of 5 at a new record.
The logic is that an intermediate cannot recover from a personal best every session, but can recover from one a week. The volume day makes the stress, the light day keeps the pattern, the intensity day expresses it.
It is the standard next step after 5x5 stalls. When weekly progress dries up too, the same structure stretches to a two-week or three-week wave.