Need to play some catch up with lower body

[Matthew]

First of all I want to say that I am just finishing off the last week of Strength 1 and have loved it. I saw some big increases in my lifts, and (bonus!) some small increases in size.
My original plan was to go through all three strength programs in a row since A) my goals are all strength-based and not appearance based, and B) I'm very impressed with the results of phase 1. However, my legs have never shown the effort I put into working them and it's beginning to get to me. I'd like to keep following the workouts in NROL, so I think I would like to switch over to Hypertrophy 1 and play some catch up, but I have some questions first.

Should I cut the volume of upper body work in half and keep the lower body work the same? This (among other things) is what I was told to do when I was trying to fix the imbalance between my back and chest. (Now completely fixed, thanks to everyone who helped. Especially you Danny, thanks for all your help).

Should I do both workouts as written, but cut the number of times I do Workout A. For example I could do Workout B each Monday and Friday, and Workout A every Wednesday.

Or is there another program that would be better suited that I could do, and then come back and do Strength II and Strength III?

Any advice is appreciated.

[Phate]

Well, I kinda had the same problem as you. I've done H1 and H2. Before starting I could bench more than I could squat. Now I'm just about even, maybe even a little stronger in the squat.
I would do H1 as it is written, because it is an A/B workout with the squat being dominant in the lower body day.
I would also do H2 as it is written even though there is only 1 lower body day.
Here is how I did it:
Workout A = Sunday
Workout B = Tuesday
Workout C = Thursday
Saturday I did sled dragging for 30-45 minutes.

I know it's getting late in the year to be sled dragging but maybe you could do some other form of GPP, stadium stairs or something.

I just stared my first week of S1. Hope I see the same results as you.

[Matthew]

Thanks for the reply Phate. I might take your advice and just do H1 as it's written, see how things go and re-evaluate in a few weeks. I have until Monday to decide, so we'll see.

Where did you do your sled dragging?