I don’t know whether this is a question you can easily answer on the forum but in Strength III Gen 2 program some movements are programmed as “top set + given number of total reps in sets capped at RPE 7” and some are programmed as “top set + backoff sets, each up to RPE 7”.
What is the motivation behind one or the other?
I understand that in the first one you control volume because total reps are given and in the second one you just control the RPE of each set but I wonder why one is chosen over the other.
They are different strategies towards achieving approximately the same target. However, the first programming strategy preserves volume with varying amounts of sets, whereas the second has more variable volume with a fixed number of sets.
In my estimation, the first strategy offers a more fixed work load, whereas the second is more responsive to performance and fatigue.
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Thanks for the answer!
Out of curiosity, would you ever program only one of those strategies in a program? (e.g. the slots in Strength III that use one or the other would just use the total reps strategy)