What's a good amount of volume for increasing bench press most consistently?
I'm in my 40's, about 210 lbs, and have been doing a 3-day program with each day focused on bench, deadlift, squat, where I just do warmup sets, then 3x5 at my 5 rep max, and then move up whenever I'm able to actually do all those sets. This week, I'm able to do 3x5x175 lbs.
On bench day, I'm doing regular bench, overhead press, and incline bench, and then some body weight push ups and dips. In recent weeks I've only been able to add 5 lbs every 2 weeks. Should I be focusing more on changing up the rep or set scheme?
Or, alternatively, am I wrong for trying to focus on my weakest lift? I know it's weird to be able to deadlift more than twice as much (385 lbs) as my bench (175 lbs), but that's just where I'm at.