Great program

That Wednesday, in Texas method in general, doesn't make sense to me and I'd like to know what the reasoning behind it is. It sounds like the Wednesday is still hard enough to impede the recovery, and I don't understand why would you want to get in the way of adaptation that needs to happen between Monday and Friday (so that the Friday can keep going up). I understand that you want to practice the movement more, but at the expense of recovery? Couldn't you, as a variation, instead of touching Monday and Friday workouts, just make Wednesday an easy day? The other thing is that older people, like my self, need more days to recover in general, so an alternative, could you just extend your week, from seven to nine or even ten days, by adding an extra day of rest between the workouts?

Love the logical series. Question: if 9 weekly sets for squats is the minimum for strength/hypertrophy on NLP (3x5) and we move to Texas method for potentially less volume (4x5 MON, 2-3x5 WED, 1x5 FRI) aren’t we sacrificing hypertrophy with less total volume? Should there be default back offs on Friday to make up for tonnage?

One question, if you were programming power cleans and chin ups on old man TM would the chins still be Wednesday and the cleans on Friday as per the standard version?