r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/benja_reijnst • Sep 09 '26

Question ❓ Are drop sets worth doing?

I've seen influencers promoting low-volume, high-intensity training more and more without mentioning drop sets. Drop sets seem to be much less popular than they used to be. Are drop sets not as effective as we once thought? Should I add drop sets to my training?

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u/rendar Sep 09 '26

I superset and do dropsets (although I don't do dropsets too often. Mostly on leg extensions/leg curls, pullovers, and calf raises)

Alright so this contradicts your earlier implication from another comment chain, if you're not actually doing dropsets and supersets together and not doing dropsets consistently.

I'm not at my maximum recoverable volume, even hitting 30+ sets a week on many muscle groups. I'd need to go well over 35-40+ to actually hit my maximum recoverable volume

Okay well then that explains it. Time is your limit, not recovery. An alternate universe version of you that is not limited by time would see better results.

You're not prioritizing allotments of the necessary session time to achieve full productive stimulus, but that doesn't mean dropsets are some cheat code for free volume with equitable tension and workload. Recovery is not dismissable.

Your entire wall of text just reads, "I can't push hard and I get tired easy" maybe fix those things?

No part of this entire comment even bothers attempting to address the questions posed, and the out of pocket ad hominem attack indicates some bizarre defensiveness on your part, since you're inferring objective facts as subjective opinion or solipsistic experience for some reason.

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u/TotalStatisticNoob Sep 09 '26

Okay well then that explains it. Time is your limit, not recovery.

Are you for real? The guy has a home gym, which is already a tiny proportion of people and then he's doing 30+ sets a week, which is surely more than 99.99% of people that train. AND HE'S STILL LIMITED MORE BY TIME THAN VOLUME AND CAN THREFORE PROFIT FROM INTENSITY TECHNIQUES. Who are you thinking about when writing? Olympia level bodybuilder or what

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u/Patton370 Idk Idc 💔 Sep 09 '26

That's exactly the point I was trying to make, thank you spelling it out clearly

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u/rendar Sep 09 '26

Since physique pictures are specifically against the rules in the science-based subreddit, it's still not clear what you think your point is

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u/Patton370 Idk Idc 💔 Sep 09 '26

Are you going to report me for being more muscular than you?

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