Confused about set order on The Bridge

Esteemed Barbell Medicine,
I’ve recently started The Bridge, intending to do Powerbuilding 1 after. This is my first time training with RPE, following a novice linear progression. I’ve finished one week and everything is well and good, but there is one thing I, perhaps foolishly, am confused about.
When it says for example that I should squat for 5 reps @ RPE 6, 5 reps @ RPE 7, 5 reps @ RPE 8 x 3 sets, how should the order of these sets look like? Am I supposed to do:
1 set at RPE 6, followed by 1 set at RPE 7, followed by 1 set at RPE 8, and then back to RPE 6? Or simply 3 sets at RPE 6, then continue to the next 3 sets at RPE 7?
I apologize if this question seems silly to you, but I have never trained anything else than a linear progression, and compared to adding weight to the bar every time I go in this whole setup seems quite complicated to me, even though I am sure it is not.

Thanks for all the great information you offer, you are a truly amazing resource for a new lifter (and I’m sure to experienced ones as well).
All the best from Norway

Lime,

The sets are listed in order of how they should be performed, where the sets of 5 @ 6 and @ 7 both are warm-ups for the top sets, e.g. 5 reps @ RPE 8 x 3 sets. You do not go back to the RPE 6 or 7 sets.

I can understand that seeing programming written in a different format can present some unique challenges. That said, linear progression and RPE are not mutually exclusive. Rather, you can add weight at the prescribed RPE and rep range in a linear fashion as (and only if) you’re gaining strength. Without the sort of qualitative input from RPE (or similar), I can’t really say if someone has gotten stronger or if the weight just got heavier - and the effort got harder.

-Jordan

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Thank you for the clarification Doctor. This certainly makes the program much more familiar to how I’ve trained before. I’ll be able to do the program with renewed confidence now.
Lime