I recently purchased the Bridge 3.0 and noticed the you regularly program a set of, say 4 reps @8 or @9 and then drop back to repeat sets of 4 at something like 75-80% 1RM (which is more in the RPE 6-7 range). In the Bridge v1.0 and v2.0 there would regularly be repeat sets @8 for up to 5 sets. What is the reasoning behind the lower percentages in v3.0?
This isn’t meant to be a criticism as I’m just genuinely interested in programming.
We found this to be more productive for strength and hypertrophy outcomes.
I havent purchased v3, but may i ask why you would program: @RPE8 and then say 4 sets 75-80%? So why mixing up RPE and percentages instead of saying: 1 @ RPE 8 + 4 @ RPE 7???
Whatever the reasoning is, I have made great progress using this approach with BBM group programming over the last few months. It “agrees” with me very well, meaning I can add weight to the bar and better judge how the RPE is progressing, plus it lets me get in volume sets on the backoff. I’ve really noticed an improvement in hypertrophy response doing this, and for upper body pressing it has allowed a surge of strength.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll see how it works out for me
Thinking back on my Bridge 1.0 run, I realize that I didn’t progress much until the “volume” block was over in the first 4 weeks and only made progress when the volume decreased in the second half. So maybe the intensity was too high to fully recover from the volume.