Fitness

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Have you used RIR on your workouts?

RIR stands for repetitions in reserve after each set. I have been using a RIR of 2 on every exercise instead of going to muscle failure every single time. Honestly I’ve been seeing results by doing that.

So, has anyone used this type of method on your workouts?

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The cf I go to has been using RPE (I don’t recall what it means) which systematically seems to work exactly as you’re describing

Format seems solid, no complaints but I haven’t seen anything different to report either. Tbf I don’t think too deeply about my training these days so my exp may be useless

It is definitely similar, by coincidence I have this image which shows the correlation. I have been experimenting with the RIR because the complete failure mindset was reducing the overall performance on my workouts.

Before I was doing 10 reps on 1st set, then 8 and 6.
Now it is 3 sets with 8 reps all the way.

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The thing I’ve noticed to be most true in lifting is that whatever program you’re on, if you’ve been on it for more than 9 months, you probably need to change it to find a burst of new gains