That is fine. You would keep using the same weight until you get 12 reps across all sets. You could also ramp up to a top set within that rep range.
^ This.
I think a lot of people got all caught up in the crazy intensity/don’t overtrain mentality in the mid-late 90’s, but ignored what Guys like Haney preached in the 80’s. “Stimulate, don’t anhiliate.”
Now I’m not saying don’t train hard, which I think a lot of people lose sight of (don’t stop a set at 10 if you can easily do another 10,… that’s not doing volume, that’s just wasting time). The goal is always to stimulate growth, but don’t run yourself down so much that you can’t keep up with your entire program.
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agree with what seems to be the prevailing thought here regarding RPE. My coach has most of my programming, for all sets, all lifts, basically in the 7-9 RPE range. I rarely actually hit RPE 10, a true max, and when I do, it’s one 1 set, it’s never for every set of a lift. So on a given lift, I might have, say, 4 sets of 10, with 3 of those sets at RPE7-8, and then one hard set at 9-10. So, all sets are difficult, but the true maxes are kept to a minimum.
Did anyone else watch this? Highlights benefits of both high volume at 2 RIR and lower volume/frequency but going to failure every set and that switching between those two methods may be a good idea.
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Jump to 37:30…
Pointing out the uncertainty of the ideal tradeoff between intensity and volume or something else?
[from video] In reference to intensity vs volume/reps in reserve:
“I’m not sure I have the answer to the question”
^yep! Now, the real thing to focus on here is how many guys pushing their coach-I-ness/articles/e-books claim to have the answer (whether by cherry picking not actually applicable studies or lying about how they know what everyone else is doing), compared to those who can honestly admit that while they may have a decent track record (either as coach or competitor) can’t tell you definitively because no one really 100% knows. 
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@The_Mighty_Stu I saw a YouTube video of John Meadows at Bev’s. Is that your friend Arash he is with?
Yep. I actually popped by Arash’s house after just to hang and see how his prep is going. Told me he liked Meadows’ intensity. Not many guy his age can still bring it whether due to age, or even injury. Of course Arash tends to usually push the envelope because he truly just loves this stuff -lol.
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That’s cool! I like Meadows’ stuff, probably because I’m old too so it resonates.
Anyway, to your point about people having a misunderstanding of how “big” different weights can be - they need only take a look at that video.
Great post! I’ve been reading the T Nation for some time now and Christian Thibaudeau’s articles and others on twice a day training made me dare to try that! I grew up with the Weider stuff and later Dorian Yates, it was confusing!
If I do a deload week after 4 hard weeks and use peri-workout nutrition I can do 10 workouts per week, 5 days twice per day
One big thing I took from JM is that you don’t have to do barbell work 1st on your days.
Many of JMs workouts have barbell bench, squat, and OHP the 2nd or third movement of the day.
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