The dumbest way to lift
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This is genuinely one of the dumbest ways to approach your training, and unfortunately it’s also one of the most common. All it does is put you in this weird middle ground where the earlier sets are too light to stimulate meaningful growth, but they're still heavy enough to pre-fatigue you on the way to the main set that actually matters. If you're capable of lifting the 70's, you want to go into that set as fresh as possible so you can execute it at full capacity and get maximum stimulus rather than being partially cooked already from those previous junk sets. I'm not saying don't warm up, but a warm up shouldn't be fatiguing whatsoever. I typically go with around 50% of my working weight for 6-8 reps, 75% for 2-3, then a single rep at 90-100%, simple as that. And this is also where a lot of high volume guys make me laugh because they'll talk about doing "15-20 sets" per muscle like it's a badge of honor when a good chunk of it were just these useless low intensity pyramid sets. So in
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