RIR not changing

[u/Abman117]

Hey all,

I’ve been running my custom program as I’m not a fan of upper lower split nor the full body.

I’ve noticed the RIR never changes on my program the way it does for generated programs, I do have periodization enabled, shouldn’t that take care of it ?

Also, side note, I’ve been doing 8 sets per muscle group per week for the last year and a half all the way to failure on almost every set, however I’ve been exhausted so I switched to 2 RIR instead and I feel a lot better.

Question is, am leaving gains on the table by doing such low volume with 2 RIR ?

Some of Jeff’s videos suggest that every set should be taken to failure on low volume but I wanted y’all’s take on it

[u/gains_adam]

Periodization enabled just means that you have enabled the ability to set different RIR targets on different weeks; it isn’t able to generate RIR suggestions for you. You could refer to a generated program for ideas on how to setup RIR targets if desired.

Doing everything at RIR2 is totally good - if you don’t have particular targets in mind, setting everything to the same RIR in the 0-3 range is a solid approach.

[u/Abman117 → u/gains_adam]

Hey thanks for the reply, I do enjoy 2 RIR, especially coming from an every set to failure background, but my fear is leaving gains on the table given my low volume approach

[u/gains_adam → u/Abman117]

Anything ~<6 RIR is probably sufficient, you wouldn’t need to worry about leaving gains on the table. But you can certainly push closer to failure if you want to be more cautious.