I’m personally a fan of the guy. I don’t think his bench record is anything impressive, but he’s got good unconventional knowledge and does his own thing.
I like 5/3/1 myself, but ultimately I did exactly that - I hired a coach and got personalized programming. I also recommend Texas Method or Omar Isuf’s free KIZEN program. @benh7915
Here’s an article on T-Nation about Texas Method:
The only thing I didn’t like about it was that the Volume day took forever, and I didn’t feel like deadlifting by the end. And that 1x5 Deadlift wasn’t nearly enough for me.
I usually did the Volume day on a Saturday or Sunday, then did my recovery day Monday or Tuesday, then the 5RM on Thursday or Friday.
KIZEN has you doing a 3x5 and then an AMRAP. Then you program your next week’s session based on how that AMRAP went. You start at 70% and once you hit 82.5-85% you go back down to 70% of your new 1RM (I personally calculated this off my AMRAP). The numbers progress is slow as hell, but I think I made good hypertrophy gains off this. I was also doing 8x8 lat pulldowns every session too though.