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Is anyone else so sick of seeing on social media rpe scales and rir? It's shoved down our throats...
Use rpe, rir
Failure is bad, skip failure so you can do more volume
I find it a horrible way for most to train for many reasons ....
It's not difficult to quickly find how many sets to failure you can tolerate and adjust volume as needed
If you guess short on how many reps you have left, your essentially wasting a set
You can not accurately track progressive overload and ensure your getting stronger if you are not hitting failure in my opinion. You may be doing more reps each week, but you don't know how many you could do so you can't garuntee your getting stronger
Just had to vent. I feel like these guys are parroting bad advice. Traditional bodybuilding training as I learned it you hit failure. Even programs like 5x5 you are not using failure each set but you aren't using rpe and trying to guess how many reps you have left and base your entire routine on a guess
Use rpe, rir
Failure is bad, skip failure so you can do more volume
I find it a horrible way for most to train for many reasons ....
It's not difficult to quickly find how many sets to failure you can tolerate and adjust volume as needed
If you guess short on how many reps you have left, your essentially wasting a set
You can not accurately track progressive overload and ensure your getting stronger if you are not hitting failure in my opinion. You may be doing more reps each week, but you don't know how many you could do so you can't garuntee your getting stronger
Just had to vent. I feel like these guys are parroting bad advice. Traditional bodybuilding training as I learned it you hit failure. Even programs like 5x5 you are not using failure each set but you aren't using rpe and trying to guess how many reps you have left and base your entire routine on a guess