Do you increase or decrease weight after each set?

[Bulkn]

No one has really answered the question yet.. With pyramids how hard are you suposed to go on the first few sets leading up to the heaviest one? To failure? Or stop when you think you can't do another full rep in good form?
I'm a big fan of reverse pyramids but I find after about 2 months or so it becomes ineffective and have to change up then go back to it at a later stage. As long as I do 2-3 small warm ups for that muscle group I won't get injured.

[gbrice75]

no one has really answered the question yet.. With pyramids how hard are you suposed to go on the first few sets leading up to the heaviest one? To failure? Or stop when you think you can't do another full rep in good form?
I'm a big fan of reverse pyramids but i find after about 2 months or so it becomes ineffective and have to change up then go back to it at a later stage. As long as i do 2-3 small warm ups for that muscle group i won't get injured.

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[only-juice]

No one has really answered the question yet.. With pyramids how hard are you suposed to go on the first few sets leading up to the heaviest one? To failure? Or stop when you think you can't do another full rep in good form?
I'm a big fan of reverse pyramids but I find after about 2 months or so it becomes ineffective and have to change up then go back to it at a later stage. As long as I do 2-3 small warm ups for that muscle group I won't get injured.

On pyramid training the goal is to increase your strength
There are two ways that I go about it.

if you are going to do 12-6 reps for 4 then you go like this
12-60%
10-70%
8-80%
6-85%

If you are going to go 10-1 for 4 then you go like this
10-70%
6-85%
2-95%
1-100%

The goal here is to keep increasing the total weight each week or every two weeks.

To my understanding, More strength equals more Muscle Mass.

[The Titan99]

I've been using the Slingshot Training System (Ronnie Rowland) for about 3 months with excellent results. He advocates the reverse pyramid system (unless you are highly advanced and using silly big weights) and it's working great for me as well as many others here, but you're right, weight selection is sometimes a bit of a problem... I DO surprise myself sometimes!! I guess that's a good thing though.