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Unread 04-07-2007, 12:52 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Scrawny View Post
I have always had a problem with understanding this too. Perhaps my muscles fatigue in a peculiar way. But if I select a weight where the final (say 8th) rep is failure, I find myself struggling to push out 6 reps on the 3rd and 4th sets. Maybe that says more about my technique than anything else.

Like the OP, I always fail on the final set, but select weights where to be fair I could probably hit 9 or 10 reps on the earlier sets.
It all depends on your rep range, if you work in say an 8 rep range then you will find that you may have to drop weight in the latter sets to complete the rep range.....
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