Looking for some outside ideas to bring into my own training and experiment with. I obviously have my biases for rep ranges and know “what works” for me currently, but I’d love to hear about other people’s preferred rep ranges and whether they differ across certain body parts. Or also whether you use different Topset/Backoff Set approaches by…

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Rich, been reading through your current and past logs. Curious on your approach to Cluster Sets, particularly DC-style RP sets.

Did you ever experiment with a DC-Style RP set followed by a straight set or vice versa? If recovery is there and we want to add volume to an RP set, would you prefer to add an additional failure point or rest then…

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Thanks, Rich. Seen PPL UL before but wasn’t sure if Lower Back loading in Pull before Legs was the best decision there. In your experience, how did you set up/what considerations did you have for the PPL R UL R split?

Thanks – makes sense. Legs before Push was to give one day between Legs and a Lower-back Loading Pull session since I’ve had a previous low back injury. This was my way of mitigating some risk within the split design itself. I’ve done the sequence of LPP in the past and it didn’t hinder progression on Push.

Hi Kam,

I swear this is a byproduct of me trying to apply JP’s Educational series along with my own experience and needs – no ChatGPT was used in the making of this!

Training history: ~4 years of serious training, having gone through multiple phases of Pushes/Cuts to improve body composition. Most recently I did a cut over the last 18 months where…

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Hi all,

Looking to get some feedback on the below. I’ll outline in as much detail what my Needs/Wants are along with my line of thinking.

Would be especially helpful to understand if the baseline volume I’ve outlined is reasonable or immediately puts progression at risk, whether you see any downstream issues with Split layout and…

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