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Originally Posted by
Gerhard Häring
I am currently doing a variant of the three day Texas Method, but I am increasingly annoyed by the long Monday sessions (currently at 2.5 hours). So I want to switch over to a four day variant. The most attractive I found in the grey book is called "Four-day Texas Method Version #2" - as I prefer to train both the bench press and the press all the time.
Here a programming detail is proposed that I have not seen anywhere else in the book so far: three sets of eight for the lift not being focussed on. Why 3x8 all of a sudden? I see sets of 5 everywhere else for the volume work. Any reason not to do 3x5 instead?
My naive me would try to just do five sets across for both bench press and press. Is there any reason not to, apart from time management?