What works extremely well with DFHT is to precede it with one of Starr's 5x5 programs. They're both dual factor programs and are very complimentary of each other. I ran both and it worked out terrific. I gained some mass and a lot of strength working only the core lifts themselves with the 5x5. By the final intensity week, I was nearly at the end of my rope in poundages. The DFHT really addressed my weaknesses that the 5x5 doesn't do. For example, all the pullthroughs, goodmornings, hypers, ect really continued to increase my squatting numbers with DFHT. Bench continued increasing because of the board/floor presses, and the repetition effort for my delts/triceps.

"You can begin to think about longer programs and structures to address specific needs. The 5x5 is basically 2 mesocycles (4 weeks each but they can range from 3-6 weeks). For reference a microcycle is 1-2 weeks (or look at a macrocycle as 4 semirelated microcycles although this is unnecessary for the 5x5 program or anything that general) and a Macrocycle is closer to a year and this is what I'm getting at although for a non-competitive lifter it's unnecessary to plan to that degree. Anyway, you are looking at stringing together a series of meso/micro cycles into an abbreviated macrocycle (yeah a lot of bull**** terms but you'll see the sense).

So, assuming you wanted to run 2 5x5s back to back (we'll just assume you will deload a week and start at the next one) and then continue into the other dual factor program (DFHT) and for the sake of fun you wanted to run a two week specialty program to address something else before beginning the core 5x5 again you'd have something like this:

Mesocycle 1:........................5x5 Loading
Mesocycle 2: Microcycle 1:.....5x5 Deload Week
Mesocycle 2: Microcycles 2-5:.5x5 Intensity Weeks
Microcycle 1 (separate):.........Deloading - 1 week
Mesocycle 3: Microcycles 1-3:.DFHT Loading
Mesocycle 3: Micocycle 4:.......DFHT Deloading
Microcycle 2 (separate):..........Specialty work - 2 weeks
Repeat

This is roughly 4 months or 16 weeks" - Madcow