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Question for those more experienced at the gym: If focusing on hypertrophy, is it better to start with the heaviest weight I can lift and manage 6-8 reps before having to do a drop set, or is it better to use a lower weight where I can do 10x3 without becoming absolutely exhausted till near the end? To clarify, the initial approach doesn't involve a single extended set, but I find that if I do this, I have to use progressively lower weights to finish.
My understanding is that my approach is likely suboptimal, unnecessarily fatiguing at the very least. But I'm curious about experiences.
In the rare instances where I'm aiming for hypertrophy rather than pure strength, my best results come from total volume.
As a rule of thumb, I multiply weight times total reps and try to maximize that final number.
I could lift 1 kg for longer than I could bother to keep counting the reps, but I get what you mean haha. Thanks!
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