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Very good points. Anyone not taking dc rest pause mini sets to failure isn't doing them right. They are doing rpe/rir whatever Mike Israetel is having them call it now days.I work out the same way, I've been doing DC 2 or 3 way for longer than 20 years. I hit failure on all 3 mini sets plus on the last mini set I'll take another 3 breaths and get another rep, do it again for a partial with a hold. What Alfresco was saying is there more in the tank. I was saying maybe with a spotter, you could hit negative failure...but hitting the muscle again with another 3 mini sets 4 days later would wreck the CNS, I'd rather hit it again with 18-20 total reps again than try and pull that deep and have to recover longer.
However One thing to point out on the DC 5 way advanced split, there are muscle groups hit more than once per week using rest pause. There is a chest day where you can perform one rest paused set for triceps after chest. Then 4 days later you hit triceps again with 2 movements rest paused then a straight set on tri/ shoulder day
So 3 rest pause exercise per week and one straight set for triceps.