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I’ve always found the sets/reps vs weight comparison not particularly helpful, when considering total volume. Too many different levers.
- An extra rep on deadlift skews the volume very differently than an extra rep on flys
- An extra 80% deadlift rep has a different training load/stress vs an 80% fly
That being said, I’m now using an app (Hevy) to track numbers which has been very helpful and interesting, a few more cycles and I may find some correlations that I couldn’t see before. I’d love for it to display a 1RM calc for each set, that could reduce the number of variables
- An extra rep on deadlift skews the volume very differently than an extra rep on flys
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This is really cool as, serendipitously, for the past two months I've been doing a single dropset to failure (2-3x 20% drops) on each of my assistance movements rather than straight sets to save time and hopefully reduce wear and tear a bit too! Came recommended from the 'data driven' crowd and definitely don't feel like I'm suffering for it. I mean, Im suffering in the moment for sure, but not gains-wise.
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First morning back today & it was a bit of a shock to the system, was hoping that after a couple of weeks of complete rest my elbow would have eased up, but if anything it's worse - seems that doing anything is better than nothing in my case.
Before Christmas I decided to knock back the weight & try to make up the difference in reps, seems manageable & i'm not worrying about dropping anything or aggravating an ever increasing list of niggles... Been interesting looking back at the total volume, doing 3x drop sets at ~85/75/65% of 1rm to within a couple of reps of failure shifts almost 40% more weight than 3x6 heavy sets of the same exercises, didn't think it would be that much of a difference - perceived effort is less, if anything, which means there's probably scope for gradually increasing the weight as long as I can still grind out 8+ reps of each.
As always i'm probably over thinking this, but with limited time & injuries i'm trying to find the balance that will allow progress with lest risk of fucking anything up further.
@Chalfie Hadn't seen him before, - actaually quite relatable, I find many youtube lifting experts are hard to watch / listen to or even instantly dislikeable but I like this guy - ta!