Somebody should post the studies of the actual hormonal responses to training after exercise. Elevations of testosterone post-exercise are quite low once you consider duration of the elevation and rather insignificant.
I’m not against max strength work by any means, but I think there are a lot of people that may respond better once they have reached a fair level of maximum strength. Kind of hard to put a number on that, but maybe 2x bw full squat without a belt (or some other equivalent to that–maybe 2.2-2.3x bw to parallel, etc.) should be plenty. That has been my experience at least and what I have seen work for a number of others.