In the old Strength III template I am running there are two accessories days and it indicates to do the same exercise both day. I have been switching it up with triceps pull downs on one day and skull crushers the other. I guessed that since it is the same muscle group, it would make little difference in hypertrophy or contribute to strength differently. I had added the skull crushers because the movement pattern used to be hard and by slowly loading that pattern my discomfort went away. Just wondering if I should be repeating the exact same exercise twice a week as prescribed, or if this small modification would have a any real difference in terms of absolute strength or hypertrophy.
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I don’t think it really matters for strength. For hypertrophy, one could make an argument to include hitting the muscle using different movements. I would prefer one overhead variation, e.g. LTE, overhead triceps extensions, French press, etc. to accompany one elbow dominant variation, e.g. triceps press downs, kickbacks, etc.
For strength, I’d pick movements that are likely to have more carry over to the bench press, such as the JM Press, skull crushers, close grip press/push-up variations, and so on.
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