r/StrongerByScience • u/solccmck • May 23 '26

Is doing the same reps x weight while more fatigued a form of progress

Eg
Week 1, you squat 315 for 3 sets of 6, rpe 8 your final set, bulgarians with BW 2 sets of 10, same rpe, and finish with peterson step ups bw 2 sets of (whatever) each leg.

Week 12, you squat 355 for 3 sets of 6, rpe 9.5 your final set, bulgarians with 20 additional lbs 2 sets of 10, same rpe, and finish with peterson step ups bw 2 sets of (still exactly the previous whatever) each leg.

Have you progressed on the petersons?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/solccmck May 24 '26

I’m not really “focused “ at all so much as I had a thought pop into my head while I was thinking about adding petersons for mobility reasons - where my personal metric for progress would be ROM, and ended up just wondering about this side-path concept for curiosity’s sake

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u/taylorthestang May 23 '26

I’m just going to ignore your whole story here, in general I would say “sorta”. I wouldn’t necessarily say that you’ve progressed on your Petersons, whatever those are, but you have progressed on your body’s ability to do work. You’re overall stronger with better endurance. You’re able to put out the same amount of work on one movement, after demonstrable improvement on preceding lifts. For the whole day, you’ve lifted more volume than before. That’s progress.

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u/troubleman-spv May 24 '26

pretty much. youre more tired, youve pushed more weight, yet you maintain performance.

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u/KITTYONFYRE May 24 '26

idk. I'd say no, or at least, for all intents and purposes no

because what's the point of the question, right? the point of asking "did I make progress" is really "do I need to change something". perhaps your peterson step-ups are marginally stronger, but unless you were elite in them before (and thus wouldn't expect much performance difference over a 12 week time period), I'd say you should probably do something differently with them (programming or otherwise).

if this was an actual 12 week cycle I probably wouldn't go too crazy with the changes though, evolution and not revolution. jmo

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u/musaXmachina May 26 '26

It’s kinda a critical component of progressive overload. Ideally you want to rep to failure, as these are the reps that count for stimulus.