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Just want to introduce myself. I am new here and found this website through luck when I was searching up how to take creatine. I read the article that Mark had talk about on taking creatine. What got me interested was the fact that he had reference and was scientifically base. Right at that moment I got addicted to this website and have been reading everything in the archive. Enough with that for now. Long story short, as I'm reading over volume 1, I notice that mark had pec deck superset with barbel bench press on a few set for fatigue and reaching "positive failure." I tired it today just to get a feeling but notice that I had to lower the weights on the bench press by 20 lbs from my first set of 8-12 reps to failure to reach 8 reps. I was just wondering if this was the correct way of doing it because I feel like I am lowering the weights too much on the bench press. By the way, this website is like a blessing. Thanks all for reading.

yes thats the correct way uv already tired them out with the pre fatigue set which means ul have to lower the weight. If u giv urself 1 min rest in between ul b able to lift heavier and still get the benefit of the pre fatigue but i would keep the rest a 1 min max. hopr this helps

Hi Fat Boi,

Cudd is right with his reply!

The answers are in your post.
Pre-fatigue exercises are exactly that: they fatigue the muscle being trained first before the main heavy exercise ie. Benchpress. The really important thing to remember here is that you are training to failure in the 8-12 rep range. So long as you are achieving this the weights will look after themselves, ie inrease as you get stronger!
Just remember to use correct form! It's all about the form especially when going to failure.

Good luck, Graham