>1st set: all 5 reps
>2nd set: all 5 reps
>3rd set: 0 reps
Decrease weight
>1st set: all 5 reps and feeling good
>2nd set: all 5 reps and shaky on the last 2
>3rd set: shaky from the 3rd rep and sometimes can't do the last one
I need a spotter.
>>37664888
>fail once
>"RESET TO THE BAR AND WORK ON FORM"
If I reset every time I struggled, I'd never get to lifting heavy. It's supposed to be hard.
>>37664860
> 5 reps
>>37664888
Don't gyms have racks with spotter arms? Y'all niggas need a homegym.
>>37664929
Nobody said anything about resetting to the bar. Just knock a few pounds off. Maybe try pyramids for a while.
Is it wrong if your arms get shaky?
>>37664960
It's not about dropping weights or anything, and this mostly happens to me on bench press but it's mostly that I can get the bar up to where the pecs tag off to the triceps and then I stall. I just want to finish my last rep, man.
>>37664966
What's your routine? I tend to just brute force myself through the lifts. If I don't get atleast 13/15 reps, I'll just continue doing the same weight for the next few workouts before I decide to deload. Otherwise things would move at a snails pace.
>>37664860
If you're starting out.... SS is the *wrong* thing to do.
You need to do the Pyramid method.
i.e. bench: 95 lbs x 10 ; 105 x 6 ; 115 x 3
You need to have muscle tissue to stimulate with the SS method -- and beginners lack that amount of pure anatomical flesh.
The pyramid method works because you increase the load and resistance without increasing risk from high rep fatigue and bad form that follows.
>it freaking works.
>>37664973
no, just try to keep good form and finish your rep
>>37665029
>You need to have muscle tissue to stimulate with the SS method -- and beginners lack that amount of pure anatomical flesh.
What on earth are you on about?
>>37665029
>and beginners lack that amount of pure anatomical flesh.
>first set 5
>second set 5 but struggling hard
>know im not gonna get the 3rd set
>lower the weight
>still only 4 reps
reeee
>>37664860
how long are you waiting between sets?
>>37665029
>You need to have muscle tissue to stimulate with the SS method -- and beginners lack that amount of pure anatomical flesh.
when people refer to each others as skeletons they don't actually mean a literal skeleton
>>37665024
I'm just using one from the routine general sticky. Keep in mind though, only my squat and deadlift are "intermediate" on symmetric strength. The rest is almost there but I'm not the strongest guy on this board.
>>37665029
>The pyramid method works because you increase the load and resistance without increasing risk from high rep fatigue and bad form that follows
yeah doing 12, 10, 8 RMs before your low rep work isn't going to interfere at all...
>>37665527
>taking advice from a dyel tranny who doesn't know shit about lifting in practice
never gonna make it
>>37664860
parasha
>>37665496
5 mins on the big lifts, 3 mins on chinups and tricep pulldowns.
I used to wait even longer on big lifts (8-12 mins on squats,) but I stopped cause it was counter productive and used up way too much time.
>>37665826
>3 mins on tricep pulldowns
m8 one minute or go home.
>>37665826
>5 mins on the big lifts
weird then, should be enough to go 3-4 reps on the final set.
try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eHZIbAznkA
>>37664860
>1st set: 5 reps, first 3 good, last 2 shaky
>2nd set: 5 reps, perfect, feeling good
>3rd set: 5 reps, perfect, feeling good
if I've just increased weight, sometimes the last few reps of set 3 are shaky
I don't get it
>>37665516
Speak for yourself. You're just mad cause you aren't making these bone gains. *rattled*
>>37665540
Can you squat twice your bodyweight?
>>37664860
>1st set: all 5 reps
>2nd set: all 5 reps
>3rd set: all 5 reps, get 2 additional ones
>>37665826
That's why you're failing faggy mcfaggerfag. A max effort set of 5 at the weights you move as an advanced novice or later (eg close to or above 3pl8 squat) is simply too much stress to recover from in just 5 mins.
Rest as long as you need to to finish the workout. If time's a factor, warm up your other lifts during your rest periods.
>>37665847
Eh, 3 mins is the sweet spot for me. If I take any less, I won't get close to the same amount of reps on the second set.
I go relatively heavy with low volume though (0.5x bodyweight x 8 reps x 2 sets)
>>37665875
>>37665907
Do you warm up? I use warmupreps DOT com to calculate warmup sets.
Don't follow it exactly, but rather use it as a guide.
>>37665934
I've experienced with rest times. 5 mins is the perfect amount for me. Waiting any longer winds me down.
I'm barely repping 2 plates though (1.5bw), so that might have something to do with it.
>>37665900
yeah, easily. And I weight double what that mentally ill twink fuck weights
>>37665889
fuck that image scared me
spooky
>>37666069
>mentally ill
So you're belittling someone for being mentally ill? Aren't you ashamed of yourself for that? If traps are mentally ill, shouldn't we be kinder towards them?
>>37666144
we shouldn't when they shit up boards trying to give up advice without having any kind of real life experience themselves just to gain attention for their fix. Hell to begin with his name is a fetish bait. We shouldn't encourage this kind of behaviour
>>37666144
The certifiably clinically mentally ill? Yes
The shitpost attention whoring kind? No
>>37664946
these pussies don't even do the 8 hour arm workout CMON
>>37664860
You probably didnt rest enough
>>37665029
These are the people giving advice here.
