Reps in BB II

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I dont now if this question is realy that important but in BB II it says in the excersises “Go up in weight if you did sets of 8 (10,12) for all sets previous week. Otherwise, try and do more reps”
Does this include the first “warm up” set which always is aroud RPE 6-7 because I sometimes can to 10 Reps RPE 8 for a excersixe but it would always be possbile as RPE 6 in this first set.

I’m not sure what you mean by the first warm up set. The first set programmed is the top work set. The idea is to max that and the rest of the sets out in reps without overshooting the RPE.

Maybe I really misunterstood something with the whole RPE thing? Because to me a RPE 6 Set would be sort of a heavier Warm Up Set.
To get to e.g. 10 reps @ 8 I choose a weight beforehand that I could do ~6@6/4 RIR to be about 10@8/2 RIR

And if that is understandable my question would be: To go up in weight should I do 10@6 in my first set and 10@8x2 for the next 2 Sets (in case of RDLs) or does that even matter that much?

(I am not a native speaker maybe I cannot really getz my point across)

In this template, the first set for some of the exercises is RPE 6 and is not a warm-up set. For the prescription 5-8 reps @ RPE 6, do 2 more sets of 5-8 (RPE can go up to @8), you would attempt to do the first set with 8 reps @ RPE 6, then do 2 more sets of 8 reps with the same weight without the RPE going > 8 on any set.

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