Good definition of drop set. I can now get the idea.👍👍

Thank you for all these research. I liked a lot this video.

I do "drop sets" with a normal rest period between sets. Started doing that decades ago because if I kept the weight the same across sets, I couldn't do very many reps to failure on following sets, so it just made sense to me. I might experiment with doing rapid drop sets with little or no rest just to save time in the gym. Usually, my workout takes 90 minutes. Much of that time is spent resting between sets. If I could reduce that to 45 minutes that would be a big difference. I might even expand my workouts to include more exercises.

really nice videos! im a sport science students and your content is very helpfull.I would personally like to see one for muscle endurance and Vo2 max

Great video! I think I'm going to use dropsets by combining it with supersets, where I choose exercise 1 and exercise 2, each targeting a different muscle where I do exercise 1 to or near failure, then do the same with exercise 2, then either go immediately back to exercise 1 again or incorporate a tiny rest before doing so and then repeat until I reach my target number of sets. So the dropsetting mainly comes from a decrease in reps instead of load, as I'm embracing the small rest time in-between each exercise. This means I'm being more time efficient not only by eliminating or almost eliminating resting, but the decrease in reps per set for similar hypertrophy stimulus also increases time efficiency. And the decrease in reps means a decrease in systemic fatigue, allowing for more volume and thus more hypertrophy stimulus per workout, all at the same amount of time or less. But that's just a theory. A hypertrophy theory! Thanks for watching!

I mainly do drop-set of reaching failure with a weight and go down and pick up the weights right after. I do these on biceps, triceps, and forearm isolation excercise. I've noticed better growth doing so.

I use drop sets for chest and back compound exercises, and I'm seeing great muscle gains. I still go for four sets total on bench press and pullups, but each of those sets is a drop set. For example, I start bench pressing with 160 lb x 6, drop weight 150 x 5, then 140 x 6, then 130 x 6. I do full four sets like that. i come and go from the gym and this is the first time I do this. Six weeks after my first workout and my wife and friends ask me how I look so big in such small period of time. I want to believe it is because all my exercises include drop sets except hip thrust. That's just me, though. I would like to see a study with many individuals doing a workout like mine compared to standard lifting to see what the results say. Thanks for the video.

It's interesting that the authors point out that the volume between the two groups was statistically similar: "No significant between-group differences were observed for the average total training volume for a single RT session" Yet, the drop-set group did perform one more set than the conventional group because the drop set group decreased weight 3 times, but also did the initial set of 12 for a total of four sets while the conventional group did 3 total sets. I guess if you run the repxweight numbers they'd come out the same between the groups, but the drop-set group went to failure one more time than the conventional group, which I think is more valuable than saying volume is equated between groups. So, maybe number of times going close to failure is more important than total volume. I don't think the drop sets would work as well with compound movements where a longer rest time has been shown to increase hypertrophy. Drop sets are probably best suited for isolation movements.

thanks a lot man🤙

Thanks!

Hey Peter, Do you think that use of more drop sets would necessitate deloading being programmed with increased frequency due to increased systemic fatigue?

On my upper body day I have 8-10 isolation movements that cover all upper muscles 1-2 per muscle after my compounds. Can I use drop sets on all my isolation exercises to save time?

Question? Is it overtraining dropsetting my compund lift.. For instance, ill do 3 set of barbell bench press. Each set Ill drop the weight in half until failure

Since drop sets provide same benifits as normal sets,so while calculating volume should you input the max weight you used in drop set or each weight*sets individually eg. Set1(12 reps each set) 15kg,set2 10kg,set3 5kg so, volume = 15kg*12*3 or volume =(15kg*12)+(10kg*12)+(5kg*12)?

One question: - when you drop the weight and execute ohter few reps, does it count as another set? Ex: if I do 8 reps with 20kg, no rest, 5 reps with 15kg, no rest, 5 reps with 10kg... is it one set or 3?

lol I've been doing this for a good two years now. Didn't know it had a name, just kinda made sense to me

I find drop sets with shorter rest times are less daunting than sets across with longer rests. If I've just done 25 reps of an exercise I really don't look forward to another 4 sets of those! If I shorten the rest time, after 45s I'm mentally more ready to push hard for less reps on the subsequent sets than try to get another 4x25 reps with 2min rests! Time Under Pain is shorter! 😅

So should we rest between drop sets like 30 secs or go straight to it? How much weight should we drop like 10% 20% or even half?

Have you made a video of pyramid sets?

So all I wanna know regarding volume is: If I do 12 reps close to failure, drop some weight and do another 8 to failure, can that be considered as 2 Sets?

After doing one drop set exercise, do i rest between to do the next exercise that works the same muscle? Example, finish 3 drop sets for bicep curls, then moves to drop set hammer curls, do I have to rest between those two exercises once finished bicep curls until I do the hammer curl?

They are dropping weight to continue working out instead of stopping, and with that, it is endurance training. How that equates to big weight lift gains I wouldn't know, but training often intermixes endurance and load. A 5x5 set after a higher weight 5x10 set is also drop set training.

Is a drop set considered another set or is just for that specific set and if it is considered another why is that?

Is there any advantage of drop sets over reverse pyramid?

great video but which one is more effective for muscle growth? drop sets or progressive overload?

you have to be a psycho to do dropsets in compound lifts xD great mate

I did Pyramid Sets last day with Zottman Curls. Can't starighten arms.

You mirin brah?