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Disturbedman72 Total Posts : 6 Reward points : 10 Joined: 1/29/2008 Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options Uniform sets vs varying weight? - Friday, July 04, 2008 2:30 PM My training has always involved doing a few sets of each excercise using the same weight on each set, however I have noticed a lot of people who train by starting off at a lower weight and then increase to a higher intensity by their last set. Which method works better for you all?

rippedchick Total Posts : 3873 Reward points : 10 Joined: 1/8/2005 Location: Ohio, USA Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options RE: Uniform sets vs varying weight? - Friday, July 04, 2008 2:38 PM I usually only do set weight through all sets on assist exercises. For bigger lifts I like progressive loads. 5'6" 125/ Bench: 115 / Front squat: 90 / Deadlift: 205 / Pullups: 10

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RE: Uniform sets vs varying weight? - Friday, July 04, 2008 7:13 PM

i actually just had a long thread at t-nation about this with a few people. a lot of them felt that it would be better to do ramping sets for an exercise to 1-2 max sets (maybe 1 hard, 1 complete max of the given rep range) than to do 3 sets of the same weight.

this is it if your interested, http://www.t-nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=2288223&pageNo=0

it starts off just talking about progression but in the 3rd/4th pages it talks about exactly what you mentioned

Pssst Total Posts : 335 Reward points : 10 Joined: 5/21/2008 Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options RE: Uniform sets vs varying weight? - Friday, July 04, 2008 8:34 PM It's called ramping sets and static sets, btw. If you're doing a proper warm up, you should already be ramping the weight up to your working sets, so I just use the same amount of weight for my working sets.

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