Fierce 5 full body progression question

[daveminnich]

So this week is an BAB week for me on Fierce 5 full body, meaning I'm only bench pressing one day. When I did my bench this week, the last rep of the 2nd and 3rd sets was a major struggle and I just barely finished the rep.

I'm wondering if, since those reps were such a struggle (very close to failure) if I should still add 5 lb next week or stay at the current weight another week (basically halving the speed of progression).

Basically, this question applies to any lift in the program. If finishing the sets is a close to failure type struggle, should weight still be increased the following week on that lift?

[Gaston40]

So this week is an BAB week for me on Fierce 5 full body, meaning I'm only bench pressing one day. When I did my bench this week, the last rep of the 2nd and 3rd sets was a major struggle and I just barely finished the rep.

I'm wondering if, since those reps were such a struggle (very close to failure) if I should still add 5 lb next week or stay at the current weight another week (basically halving the speed of progression).

Basically, this question applies to any lift in the program. If finishing the sets is a close to failure type struggle, should weight still be increased the following week on that lift?

Get the reps...add the weight

[FaIIen]

Get the reps...add the weight

Fail the reps...reset

[Squid24]

Add the 5lbs...next week you have 2 trys...if you fail on both days..then reset

[daveminnich]

Thanks everyone!

[sqal]

I'm curious what you guys do if you fail reps. Let's say I can only do 3 reps of bench, would I do 5 sets of 3 reps or would I just do the 3 sets?

When I started I couldn't do a whole lot of chin ups, so I would increase the amount of sets I did to equal the same amount of volume. I think it helped in that case since I went from barely being able to do 1 to 8 rather quckly.

[DreadPir8]

I'm curious what you guys do if you fail reps. Let's say I can only do 3 reps of bench, would I do 5 sets of 3 reps or would I just do the 3 sets?

When I started I couldn't do a whole lot of chin ups, so I would increase the amount of sets I did to equal the same amount of volume. I think it helped in that case since I went from barely being able to do 1 to 8 rather quckly.

If you fail a rep I’d recommend stopping that exercise for the day. So you fail on your 3rd bench rep; no more benching that day.

Bodyweight exercises like chinups/pullups I’d say its a little different. It’s safer to fail a set of those, and if you’re trying to increase reps going to failure can be good

[FaIIen]

I'm curious what you guys do if you fail reps. Let's say I can only do 3 reps of bench, would I do 5 sets of 3 reps or would I just do the 3 sets?

When I started I couldn't do a whole lot of chin ups, so I would increase the amount of sets I did to equal the same amount of volume. I think it helped in that case since I went from barely being able to do 1 to 8 rather quckly.

That's one way to temporarily lower relative intensity and keep climbing. It's not a bad idea.

[Squid24]

I'm curious what you guys do if you fail reps. Let's say I can only do 3 reps of bench, would I do 5 sets of 3 reps or would I just do the 3 sets?

When I started I couldn't do a whole lot of chin ups, so I would increase the amount of sets I did to equal the same amount of volume. I think it helped in that case since I went from barely being able to do 1 to 8 rather quckly.

It still goes down as a fail but, I see no harm in going for total reps for the exercise if you want to add the sets...