Very thorough post, thank you!
Here’s a question that I have wanted to ask for a while.
I know about the study you mentioned about going to failure but I can’t help but think that going to failure on a high rep set is much more difficult than with medium reps.
See, if I’m doing a 6-rep set of presses, you bet I will know once I can’t do another full rep.
But how about a growth factor set of lateral raise variations? I’ll get to a point where I have to cheat the way up and eventually the pain will have me give in. But being unable to complete another rep, gun to the head? No way!
I’m asking this because from now on I will substitute my rest pause ohp and lateral raise dropset with growth factor sets and I want to make damn sure I’m getting everything from them.
Also how many sets do you think I should do? Since the program calls for 2 preparation sets, should I do a total of 3 growth factor sets per workout? From one point, I don’t want to end up doing too much volume. From the other though, I can’t help but think back of when I used to do 3 sets of 5 different growth factor exercises.
One more question. I just saw this
And it looks good since it also uses only one set. I’m thinking about introducing this in place of mTor exercises for arms, since i haven’t felt them well so far
What do you think?