I feel you get weak & sick from training cause you overly convinced yourself that training to failure will cause overtraining/burnout. Placebo.

Else the volume(aka sets taken to failure) is too high for you to recover from.... but that is unlikely cause ketnaab SS is low volume begginer program.

1. If you overtrain kaw kaw yes then exercise will fuck u up. For me to fuck myself up will be doing 6 sets of squats + deadlifts to failure everyday... will probs break down before 2 weeks mark.

2. Not sure, depends on individual. I train in non air con (ghetto) gym at non crowed hours (weekend morning and early night weekdays).

3. Following is my program: http://hardset.meshsolutions.tech/program/25

1st set is RPE 8, 2nd RPE 9, and 3rd is taken to failure for every exercise. I rest 2min between all sets for all exercises. Never had any issues. Only maybe after 5 weeks of running it sometimes I feel my muscle/bone abit sore (i feel healthy/alive/energetic, not weak) so I take a 1 week deload (-20% weight) and come back stronger.

On purpose cause I need that much volume to grow/progress. Reason why got different exercise in between those 2 bench press is so my chest can rest and i can lift more on my 2nd bench press (get more vol in).

This post has been edited by Armesh: Jun 24 2016, 05:44 PM

Because a person with big ego doesn't go far both in life and the weight room.
Stay humble.

Eh not reli lar, it normally takes like 6 months of consistant training to get this RPE thing down. You will normally know pretty well how many reps more to failure after training awhile.

If first set you got 5, and u know you can get 6.... probably you can do 7 reps at max and you stopped 2 Reps before failure.. that be ~ RPE 8.
Second set you got 5, u not sure bout 6, you can judge from the bar speed of the 5th rep. If 5th rep bar got up really slow, probably that was max, RPE 10. If 5th rep bar speed medium, then RPE 9.
3rd set if you need pause 5 sec between the rep then the 5th rep is surely RPE 10.

The key is to see your bar speed when in doubt. The last acceptable rep before failure will surely be slow, and close to form breakdown. AKA "the grind"

This post has been edited by Armesh: Jun 27 2016, 01:48 PM

Ya then it's 10 for both. That's what RPE is about, autoregulate weight based on feeling instead of a fixed %RM.