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@atrckr-bf7de

Ай бұрын

I usually train more endurance/high reps as it's more functional/useful for my daily life and construction job so I usually do drop sets with higher reps ranges works for me but maybe not time efficient

@xnoreq

26 күн бұрын

Where did you get the false idea that "the majority of the muscle building stimulus is only coming from the last few reps"?

@fortnex9972

16 күн бұрын

I decrese about a 10% the weight and is a muscle killer

@radaaalnassery2966

Күн бұрын

Regarding your first point, research does show that the final reps in a set, particularly when reaching near failure, can be particularly effective due to muscle fiber recruitment and metabolic stress. However, it's not that simple, because if that were the case, we would only be doing singles, doubles, and triples to get jacked, but this typically wouldn't generate the same metabolic stress needed for optimal muscle hypertrophy. Moreover, I agree that higher reps are "junk" because they can play a significant role in muscle growth through different pathways. Stretching fascia tissue and lactic acid are both pathways contributing to hypertrophy, and incorporating a variety of rep ranges can optimize muscle development. Lastly, if the reason you choose not to do higher reps on a drop set is because of cardiovascular restraint and/or not being able to handle the "muscle burn," then A, you should get checked out for having such horrible cardiovascular endurance and look into improving your cardiovascular fitness, and B, you should grow a pair and get comfortable being uncomfortable.

@xnoreq

Күн бұрын

@@radaaalnassery2966 I don't think so. Show me the studies that compared going to failure in every set vs only going to some RIR but still doing the same volume that show that the failure group had higher gains.

10 pounds makes a huge difference when you're close to failure

@ryanbradleyrankin

Ай бұрын

Yes I'll get maybe 6 more reps at most.

@liammagalhaes6579

Ай бұрын

Bro, Ong. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even change the weight

@reginaldlloyd4892

Ай бұрын

This!

@pedromorais6882

27 күн бұрын

Of course it does, its my pr

@sailingsential

18 күн бұрын

This guy is not a scientist, don't just believe him

Where I work out, "drop sets" seem to involve people dropping their weights on the floor. And then never re-racking them.

@DILFDylF

16 күн бұрын

When you work out in the basement and are lazy :/

@calebleibold7644

10 күн бұрын

Broo fr 😂

Thanks for saying this. I felt bad for only needing 2-5 reps to failure.

@marklikesbarbells55

18 күн бұрын

Same bro

@nomad155

12 күн бұрын

Keep up the good work

“Fluff and Pump” 😂

@Frosty_tha_Snowman

Ай бұрын

Never heard someone compare chasing a pump to fluffing, but it's so damn accurate 😂

@BigstickNick

29 күн бұрын

I will check myself going forward

@GameN3rdz

20 күн бұрын

​@@BigstickNicklol

@liamashburn3334

12 күн бұрын

What is he referring to?Useless training?

@otrebla8944

11 күн бұрын

Pump and dump

Failure point keeping you big as hell

Yeah, Sean knows his stuff. This is a very useful piece of advice.

@thatguy9464

Ай бұрын

noone asked

@AJ-xu5dh

Ай бұрын

​@@thatguy9464I did

@KarimTemple

Ай бұрын

​@@thatguy9464no one asked

@ClarlesClarkely

29 күн бұрын

@@thatguy9464no one asked bozo

@patootie3529

28 күн бұрын

​@@thatguy9464imagine saying this in a public comments section lol

Literal life changing abvice, big thumbs up Sean.

Sometimes i feel like only getting 3-5 more reps on a drop is weak behaviour but if sean says it i will continue

@Kosiduss

17 күн бұрын

are you a child ? the less reps you do the more challenging the weight you're lifting is. it's actually "weak behaviour" to be able to do 10 reps on a drop set

Shane Nawigiwigi back with another piece of quality fitness advice 🗣️🔥

@metalcake2288

Ай бұрын

Nawigiwigi is the funniest shit I've ever seen today. Thanks Sean for the fantastic fitness advice

@ilikegeorgiabutiveonlybeen6705

Ай бұрын

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@dustencross357

Ай бұрын

* Nalajuwangwane

@egotrips4810

22 күн бұрын

We Love You Tecca 2 is criminally underrated and 1 of my fav trap albums

Did these with the same bars today. Wide, medium and narrow. Drop-sets lowering in single increments after six sets each. My back was screaming! 👍🏼 a total of 120 reps once completed. At 73 I’m feeling my back for the first time in years. I started at 120 and decreased incrementally to 90. Ten reps each.

Been working out just over a year and a half now. Appreciate all the effort you put in your videos Sean and thanks for helping me improve my workouts. Keep up the good work.

@valerianlin2792

Ай бұрын

Nice physique bro 💪💪

Yes. This is something I like to do for my last exercise of the day. Getting 3 to 5 more reps is accurate when hitting failure or close to failure. Doing 10 more reps, you dropped to much weight.

Most people fail to train closer to failure, while thinking they are closer than failing to train closer to failure.

@JamesNalacar

Ай бұрын

Agreed. I believe beginner lifters who are serious about lifting should definitely spend some quality time (like 3 months or so) actively gauging just where their muscular failure point lies and not just training till the burn and then dropping the weight. Muscular failure I believe is a skill that must be mastered if you wanna build quality muscle

@yipperdeyip

Ай бұрын

This is why HIT Mentzer style doesn't work for many. Most people are too much of a 😺 and don't know how to go to actual failure

@nikosflochillionere-zx2sr

Ай бұрын

Your sentence makes no sense. I'm tripping right now by your likes. Humans truly don't understand anything they just translate it to something they understand

@terrancekayton007

Ай бұрын

@@nikosflochillionere-zx2sr I read it 3x and was like 😵‍💫…thought i was missing something, or it was some kind of poetry 🤣🤷🏿‍♂️glad it wasn’t just me😆.

@terrancekayton007

Ай бұрын

@@nikosflochillionere-zx2srI did like, what I think he was trying to say. 🤔

Thank for the solid advice. I have been doing drop sets wrong this whole time…

Sean's muscles look like they want to jump out of his skin. Absolutely diabolical physique!!🔥🔥

@Benjalina123

28 күн бұрын

You used the word diabolical incorrectly, sir.

@rjperezzz5670

24 күн бұрын

Diabolical has a negative meaning

@gribby2302

24 күн бұрын

His physique IS evil! It's menacing, villainous. Terrifying to behold. I don't understand the confusion.

Depends. If you are already banged up from going heavy, you may be better off doing 8-10 reps in your drop sets, even if it's still the last 3-5 reps of those that stimulate hypertrophy. If your main set is already high reps, then you may benefit from dropping less. In that case, you may not even have to drop weight, but do rest & pause instead. A few seconds of rest may allow you to do 3-5 reps when the weight is not heavy to begin with. I don't like generalizations without context.

this makes perfect sense. thanks Sean!

Thank you for clarifying I’ve always heard guys saying you need to drop enough to do another 8-12 or however many you did on first set.

This is really awesome advice

I'm glad I saw this. Ive been making this exact mistake

Yeah but if you’re getting to the point that you’re so fatigued that you’re losing your technique and you want to get every rep in, you have to drop a significant amount.

Actually solid advice, will start doing this from now on. Thanks Sean!

Excellent tip, one of your best shorts if you ask me.

Damn good info

Amazing tip! Looking big King!

Keep in mind everyone that hypertrophy is a bodily response from “harsh conditions.”

If you're doing 10+ reps a good rule of thumb is to start by dropping 10lbs (if you're using dumbbells or any double sided weights that's 5lbs off each side)

drop sets are my integrated vo2 max training so I aim for 8-12 reps per drop set. it's all about the goals you're trying to achieve

do the first set your PR and then drop 15% of weights on each seperate set. There.

I think I saw a video from Dr. Mike or Jeff that there is a study that shows doing piramid up or down sets makes no difference to sets with all same weights, the most important thing is going close to failure and having consistent weight is easier to understand your progressive overload.

I try to add 4-6 reps with each lowering of weight, for exactly this reason

Depends on the exercise and machine, but as a general rule I find dropping down two pins works great with me for a lot of the drop sets I do.

"Extended fluff and puff marathon" haha I love that

My favorite "drop-set" is doing pushups to failure after i bench press every set

Thanks for the advice

It’s about intensity not getting 8-12 reps

Solid advice 👍

Great advice👍spot on

Brave of you to assume I’ve got that much weight to drop in the first place 👀

Appreciate the tip😊

Best fitness advice on KZread

bro saving my gains over here. thanks sean!

Very helpful, thanks.

Mouthwateringly useful information

best fitness influencer

I don't do weight drop, only decreased amount of reps. my dumbbell is a screw on type, so reducing weight means I had to load/unload and screw which is a hassle

@InevitableTruth.

Ай бұрын

Yeah same. All that I have is only done with my two dumbbells and 40 kgs of weight plates. There are pros of dropset just like when you're plateauing on 3 reps but I learned that if you keep it like that your muscle will eventually grow anyway.

@RZ_2K

Ай бұрын

just do pause reps at that point, with small rest periods

Thank you

If you're focusing on endurance or cardio, it could help, but then you're not training optimally for those goals. It would be best to separate your strength and cardio training so you can do each optimally and not waste time on training and waiting to recover from that suboptimal training. Really love the content!

Yep, that makes sense. I keep thinking I need to reduce the weight to get near the same number of reps as my first set to ensure volume. But then this approach is almost like MYO-Reps.

I tought people shifter to heavier weights, not lighter

@davidhill2758

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I've done that - they used to call it pyramiding...

@jonnovak6856

Ай бұрын

For a drop set..?

@davidhill2758

29 күн бұрын

@@jonnovak6856 He's talking about pyramiding...

@jamesfahy9954

29 күн бұрын

That's pyramid training, this is reverse pyramid training. Both are fine as are straight sets.

@stumble_leiner

27 күн бұрын

Sigma male mentality. Nearly dropped the weight on your head cuz you're beyond failure?! Go harder bro, pump that weight up and teach your body a lesson

I do 30% drop and it works for me. ie: 100lbs drop to 70lbs

@hombresdealtovalor888

29 күн бұрын

Me too

@rickmoss6421

29 күн бұрын

​@@hombresdealtovalor888Yeah, most of these so-called fitness influencers love to lowkey clickbait for views. Most of their "advice" is common sense and nothing game changing. Bottom line...fitness is not a one size fits all endeavor.

This will also make your muscles much tighter than they should be which means you’ll need to stretch a ton more

This makes so much sense that I feel silly never really thinking about it before.

I can immediately implement this advice. Perfect little video

On weight stacks, I just reduce the weight by 2 notches every set on drop sets. Gets me absolutely destroyed

Nice dude, thanks!

There’s no such thing as junk reps if you like muscle endurance keep doing it

Just don't rest between sets! A stimulus is a stimulus!

I rlly needed this 😭🙏🏾

Gold info thanks

Im doing this for a long time, and my gym bros thinks its wrong 😂

I have a few dropsets planned in my workout plan and I never thought of it. Thanks.

I don't do drop sets,I just grunt through a full set and just increase the rest between sets by a min

Switch it around and do upsets, increase weight and decrease reps. For example if your doing arms do 4 sets of 12, 10, 8, 6, start with a weight that you can barely do 12 reps then add 5 or 10 lbs or as much as you can handle to hit failure each set. My arms have always been on the small side no matter what I tried but when randomly decided to try this one day with my arms and shoulders and I couldn't use my arms the next day and they looked like they exploded after a month of doing that.

I thought the biggest mistake was dropping the weights and breaking the floor

Just rest pause and perform maximum rep to failure

Thank you!!!!

This guy cracks me up...😂😂😂😂😂

I usually go down 5 lbs when doing drop sets. Sometimes 10 lbs if I'm really burnt out

Dude thats why i do it. For both cardio and muscle buildiing at the same time becausse I don't have time to do seperate workouts for them

How long should I wait in between the dropsets? Do them immediately? Wait a few breaths?

@NofirstnameNolastname

7 күн бұрын

Immediately ofc, or asap. Waiting a few breaths lets me do more reps of the same weight already.

Great tip Sean 💪👊

Could you make a video on drop sets vs cluster sets?

I’m a fan of just ending on a drop set and really making it hard. Hated doing drop sets every set… so many reps. This is a solid way to go about it.

GOOD STUFF, bro!!! 💪💪 I don't do drop sets. But I'm thinking of trying

Thanks Sean. This is a great confirmation that I have been almost instinctively been performing my lateral deltoid drop sets correctly.

I imagine drop sets like a training partner, a good gym partner will only take as much weight off as needed to perform a few additional reps

Your shorts are very interesting keep it up man

I min-maxxed this by skipping the initial reps and only doing the last 1-2 reps to failure

i usually reverse the weight that i inscreased, get 3-5 reps at best, love doing it with Hack Squats.

great tip

It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey… ;)

I’m a teenage boy who is looking to get in to gym but I don’t really know what I’m doing. I have limited knowledge on what exercises work what muscle groups, and I have no idea what a proper gym schedule should look like. Can someone please help me?

@MyCharleyhorse

Ай бұрын

Drop sets are not for beginners. You want to start with traditional compound movements -- look them up -- and then add forearm, biceps, triceps, and deltoid exercises. One way to begin planning out your exercises, though, is to subscribe to Sean's site and look over his inventory of available videos.

For bench press 6-8 reps drop the weight 20lbs or so go to failure then push ups til failure

I do -30% twice after main set and it works for me

You only need one set to failure

I'll usually drop the weight by about 10-15% each time. Unless I'm going for a high rep burnout pump chase, then I'll drop it by up to 50% and burn it out, but that's just for the pump.

Exception to that is BFR training

My goal is 8 reps to reach RIR. For a drop set, I’ll only reduce the weight to where I can still achieve RIR at 8 reps. No more than that

I usually do 60% to 70% of the weight from the last set. 225 to failure followed by 135 or 155 to failure or whatever is easier to put on the bar. I'm 220 to 225 at 6'2 10% to 12% body fat, I'm not trying to gain muscle at the moment just trying to lean out as much as possible and improve cardio.

Who truly trains to failure?

on drop sets i do an extra 2-4 reps

I recently started doing drop sets on my bicep curls, starting at 40 I'd drop 5 pounds every drop and keep dropping until I'm down to 15 pounds, usually doing 4 reps per drop

Hmmm, this was actually quite a differently explained take on a now generally accepted fact about end-reps...with useful graphics too

I only care about strength drop sets are not an option for me.

I only encounter that issue after several sets/decreases. For example, the sets might be 12, 9, 5... but then the next set/decrease is easier, and I can do 8. Am I doing too many sets; i.e. going too low? 🤔

Example: 5 lbs- > 10 lbs ->15lb(till failure) ->5lbs(till failure). Basically progressive overload then a drop set.

I drop by about 20% of the previous set's weight. That way the quantitative drop gets less and less.

I never understood why someone would want to hit a rep number effortlessly and then reduce weight...and do it again, and again.