Originally Posted by
manveer
Yes, work ups can be used. Some people still use fatigue stops and drops, but as far as I know RTS has stopped using them completely.
A little confused by why you say that all drops are 5% and use that in your example. You wouldn't do a drop from x1@8 in most cases, you'd find the percentage that corresponds to your down set prescription for the day based on the x1@8.
So, if your x1@8 was 100 and that's 92% for you, e1RM for the day is 100/.92=108.7. Then if you had to do x5@8 or something, that would be 81%, so you'd do your first set of five at 108.7*.81=88 (round accordingly). Also, you could drop more than 5% if you hit an @9.5 or @10 and still had another repeat to do. Drop what you need to in order to get the RPE back down to an 8 (1 RPE is around 5% drop, 2 RPE drop around 10%).