Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
You sound awfully positive here, but do you actually train??? Here on the Flat Earth??? Have you never had the experience of having your last warmup "feel like shit" and then having all the work sets go for all the reps, even though they "felt like shit"? I assure you that everyone else reading this has experienced this situation, and that I have been training for 42 years and had this experience last week. If you decide what you want to do for work sets based on your warmups instead of your programmed assignment, you are giving yourself permission to not try, and therefore you are not training. Not training is certainly popular, and Gold's Gym is full of happy people who do not train. Your approach is certainly more complicated, and may therefore be perceived as more valuable. Go ahead and sell it to credulous kids. Easier that training, easier to sell.