Originally Posted by
Treg
Sorry, also meant to ask - I remember reading in the Practical Programming book about eventually going to heavy sets of 3 very late in the novice phase, and have had that in the back of my head. I was hoping that was still a little ways off in the distance, but maybe not.
Once I start doing heavy sets of 3, should I also do a backoff set of 5 at 90% (in the same workout), just to add some volume at the heavy end? Or treat that heavy 3 just like it's a heavy 5 - just do the 3 reps, and that's it till next time?
Thanks again.