Are Straight Sets Best for Natural Lifters?

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I am assuming that the reps are the most you believe you can complete without failure. Can I assume none of these sets are to failure?

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It’s the last rep I know I can get for sure called positive failure

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That sounds like an oxymoron.

What might a negative failure look like?

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Positive failure is when you fail on the concentric phase of a lift, or know that you would not be able to complete one more…

Negative failure is, once you reach positive failure, your partner help you out and you do the eccentric by yourself… negative failure is reached when you can no longer lower the weight under control

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Same here man, this double progression model motivates me because I think I’m a Type 1A guy who’s aggressive and i don’t have patience.
But many says that triple progression method is even better from CT, i mean that’s something I’ll try very soon.

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Yea. Positive failure is when you really struggle with the last rep or maybe even need slight help from a spotter, but you dont miss the rep and stop the set once you get to that point

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For the sole sake of being argumentative, an exercise where the lockout is extremely easy compared to most of the range of motion, like the squat and leg press, guessing your capability for the last positive rep isn’t extremely good.

I recently recall doing 2 minute leg presses (or 60 reps which ever was last to occur), after 90 seconds (or 45 reps) everyone of the subsequent reps seemed like the last positive rep.

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I think @Christian_Thibaudeau sometimes does something similar to my example when he does Cluster sets.

If you exceed the rep range on the first set you can increase weight.

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I disagree 100%

A set of 45 reps you can definitely take a few breaths and pump out more reps for probably the last 10 or 15 reps with a weight that light even though they are difficult to lockout.

Put on your 5 rep max on the bar and squat it.

Not gonna happen. Youll know when u cant do another rep

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Not difficult to lockout! No matter the weight.

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Coach what do you think of my example compared to the double or triple progression?

Still favor getting 6 reps on all sets before increasing weight?

Thanks

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