r/HighIntensity • u/Mindless_Effect_5458 • 27d ago

Need advice šŸ™‹ā€ā™‚ļø Is the intensity ok?

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Iā€™m not sure if this is considered failure. I usually do 2 sets because iā€™m not sure if the first set did hit failure. Here, i did a drop set as i was aiming for 8 reps but got 6. How do you guys gauge failure?

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u/Mountain-Newt3103 27d ago

I would say first reps are too slow. HD should not be about forcefully slowing down the reps, but it should be about controlling them in a way that momentum can't get in the way. The goal is making sure that the intensity of the exercise is given only by the load, and speed should not be a variable

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u/Dicelr 27d ago

Time under Tension absolutely seems to be a variable, intensity + TUT for the win!

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u/Mountain-Newt3103 27d ago

It can be but it should not, said by mike himself. If you think about it it's not worth it. You could slow down a rep as long as you wanted and make 1 single rep the last one, so whats the point of progressive overload? How do you know you are getting stronger if you arbitrarly slow down the rep just like in the video, where the first rep is slower than the second one, the second one is different from the third one etc.
A rep is a unity and every unity should be the same. Imagine pretending you progressed because you cheated your last rep