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With that in mind is It better to rest fully then go into the next set fresher or stress the muscle more by jumping to the next set quickly.
I was under the impression stressing a muscle is what made the tears to increase muscle size and strength.
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For heavier strength work - rest as fully as is possible / needed for you. Generally 3+ minutes minimum. I'm usually 3-5, 5+ for when things get heavy, or I'm on the last few of a large amount of sets.
For hypertrophy + assistance work - generally shorter rest periods, as you say, more stress, more hypertrophy.
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Speaking of resting in between sets. Today for the first time I started doing the recommended 3 min in between T1 sets and 2 min between T2 sets. As a purely subjective estimate, I reckon this increased the power I was able to put into each rep by 10% to 15%. Roughly the same weights as last session I admit, but much better form and momentum