I began training around 6 months ago and since the beginning I have been doing 3 sets of dropsets to failure for every exercise I do. I own a home gym with dumbbells so it's easy for me and I like dropsets. Since I started my RPM have either doubled or trippled for nearly every exercise I do. But now I'm reading all about how drop sets should only en used sparingly and only on the last set. Because they are hard to recover from. But I have been having great gains so far. Is it only because I'm still getting newbie gains despite a suboptimal routine or is this slander against drop sets untrue?
>>77008116If it works for you it works for you. Don't get caught up on what others say too much. 90% of all training advice is bullshit.
>>77008116They aren't a bad thing and probably more efficient than multiple sets, but if you really want to min max stimulus and fatigue do one top set as often as possible. Drop sets probably take longer to recover from so you can't do them as often.
Recovery becomes more important as you get stronger. So you might need to scale it down later, but you will notice that. If you start getting minor injuries all the time or feel like shit. Also it depends on all variables. Training frequency, sets per muscle, sets total, how close to failure etc. So doing dropsets for all sets can be fine, but doing it high volume to failure all the time is probably not a great idea.
