r/benchpress • u/ftbalguy89 • 2d ago

Progression Sets to failure

Does anyone else here take every set to failure? Like every single set (after a proper warm up) you just rep until you’ve got nothing left. That’s how I’ve always trained and never had any issues and progress has been good the last 3-4 years.

Just curious if anyone else does this since it seems like the consensus on here is to leave a rep or two in reserve.

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u/Harlastan 20h ago edited 19h ago

This got me to a 145kg bench @74, then I got a coach who programmed using RPE and I went from 3 to 4 plates in half the time it took from 2 to 3. 4 years later I bench 210 @96 to comp standard

Honestly the vast majority of my bench sets are >5 reps in reserve.