How often should you do drop sets?

[Fairplay]

I hear you should do it once a month for each muscle, otherwise it's no good for your CNS. Is this broscience?

[jgreystoke]

If you want a lot more size, you can do them for every big exercise after your low rep strength sets. Eg 5 3 1 Boring But Big.

I hear you should do it once a month for each muscle, otherwise it's no good for your CNS. Is this broscience?

We all hear a lot of nonsense.

Just who did you hear saying this?

And if you only do something once a month, just how is is going to make you swole? Eagerly awaiting the HIT police.

[qoohhlt]

Move move shake shake now drop

[schnitzer31]

you could drop set every day if you wanted to (not long term tho), just not for every single exercise.2 drop sets per muscle group is sufficient I believe since its very easy to overtrain.

[qoohhlt]

Btw I drop every sets when I'm on low volume dayS

[jhew86]

They are pretty useful as plateau breakers, but I don't use them frequently myself. I have found that reverse pyramid training yields a similar effect and is more sustainable throughout a hypertrophy phase.

[Wisewisewizard]

I drop set all the time. If I feel I haven't pushed it hard enough and really want to work that muscle. Drop sets got my bench up huge. I was benching 400lbs in no time once I started using drop sets. On top of lots of calories to support the intense exercises I was putting my body through with all the drop sets. Working out till failure. Now I do heavy set then. Drop set with light weight and lift it really slowly . (Time under tension)

[TheShadowMan]

I typically save them for those times I hit a wall and need some way to bust through - and adding weight isn't an option yet. They allow me to do that if used sparingly. I don't do them often because of how highly adaptive the body is. No matter how crazy the technique is, do it enough and eventually you reach a point of diminishing returns. Plus it's a real pain to set up and I sometimes get dirty looks for stockpiling all the 10lb plates, haha.

[health4life24]

you could drop set every day if you wanted to (not long term tho), just not for every single exercise.2 drop sets per muscle group is sufficient I believe since its very easy to overtrain.

What?

No.

[Farley1324]

I have never done a drop set.

Well, maybe back in high school when everything I did was terrible, but that I can remember, never done any.