Man, you guys are good, and you definitely keep me on my toes!
Here's the deal: TTT was originally written as an intermediate program. It's intermediate because it consists of an explosive (speed) strength training day for day 5 - moderate loads with a super fast tempo. But in MR, I wanted to change it to a beginner program so I mentioned hypertrophy strength instead of explosive strength. Unfortunately, the loading didn't switch to hypertrophy strength parameters (my bad!).
So you have two options. If you've been lifting for more than 2 years, you can perform day 5 as explosive strength training (super fast, moderate loads, little fatigue) and keep the loading at 65% of 1RM. Or you can bump up day 5 loading to 80% of 1RM and perform all 8 sets in a traditional (slower) fashion.
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