That's actually not so bad, at all.
You're one of the sharpest knives in the GB drawer (all, err, I mean, "no homo!"), so I'm curious: what led you to Dino training? How does it and the Mentzer stuff mesh?
When I was young(er)
some powerlifting friends introduced me to J.C. Hise's program of 20 rep breathing squats. At the time, I hated leg work but found out that I was quite good on the squat and took it as far as I could. I liked the intensity of it all and thought I would give Mentzer's H.I.T. a try. The Hise squat method worked great for me but H.I.T. not so much. I went back to volume but reduced the volume by 50% or so but continued the Hise method of breathing squats for years.
One day over a decade ago while searching the internet I decided to look up J.C. Hise and found that Brooks Kubik was also a fan and bought his book "Dinosaur Training". It was revelatory to say the least. As with Mentzer, Brooks said you can train hard or you can train long but not both. I tend to implement both methods in my training, sometimes alternating them but lately I cannot do thick bar training at all as it hurts my joints too much. I had sawhorses in the garage for bottom position squats and bench presses but ultimately, training alone made it too difficult to really push myself with either Dino or H.I.T.
So these days I just vary the theme of my workouts to include either style or a bit of both depending upon my mood/level of energy. Some days that would include drop sets of curls and tricep pressdowns or close grip palms up pulldowns and machine bench presses. Lately I do one or two working sets after maybe three warmups. My left elbow sometimes "clicks" so I just drop the weight and do strict, slow high rep tricep pressdowns instead of the heavier drop sets followed by negative dips.
It's all good and as Franco Columbu once said, if it works...it works. But I have found that I do need to rest and recover more and both styles encourage that.
