Andrew Huberman· PhD
Varying repetition ranges in resistance training may be a useful technique.
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Varying repetition ranges in resistance training may be a useful technique.
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You can do it that way. I prefer to combine it into the week. So if let's say we're doing squats twice a week, then let's do a lower rep set day and a moderate rep set day. And you can do that for all of your kind of main compound lifts. And that adds some variety, but also means you have the data to make sure that you're progressing in each of those rep ranges kind of simultaneously.
So if let's say we're doing squats twice a week, then let's do a lower rep set day and a moderate rep set day. And you can do that for all of your kind of main compound lifts.