Ascending vs descending when training

[Craig Bowie]

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all safe and well?

Recently started your chest program as my weakest part of my body is my chest.

I’m 2 days in (push / pull) and ive realised ive been doing ascending weights instead of descending – so incline press for example I’ll do my sets but progressing the weights each set instead of starting at my top set and doing 2 back offs (im assuming 2 back off sets as the program shows 3 sets?)

My question is, do i do warm up or “feeder” sets before getting to the appropriate weight for the top set then begin the sets or do i do an educated decision on what weight to begin on the top set and see what happens?

Thanks for creating this app, the knowledge, videos and forums have been amazing, helpful and inspiring!

Thanks
Craig

[BryceBahm]

[Craig Bowie]

Thanks Bryce, really appreciate the detailed response. Going to start with top sets here on 🙂

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