I loved the SVR template, and looking forward to starting SVR II. My question is, what number of reps do I want to hit when you mention “PR set”. For example, Week One: 70%x5, 80%x5, 90%x PR set, 70%xPR set. I understand this would be considered the 3’s week, so for my PR set would I want to hit at least 3 reps, at least 5 reps like the other working sets, or whatever the hell I can muster to break records?
Just decide how many would you like to hit, go and try your best. I’m always planning less reps than I actually could do just to have somethong in a tank.
I loved the SVR template, and looking forward to starting SVR II. My question is, what number of reps do I want to hit when you mention “PR set”. For example, Week One: 70%x5, 80%x5, 90%x PR set, 70%xPR set. I understand this would be considered the 3’s week, so for my PR set would I want to hit at least 3 reps, at least 5 reps like the other working sets, or whatever the hell I can muster to break records?
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You would do enough reps to set a PR. This is not terribly difficult. Either look at your training log or use the rep/max calculator as described in The Book.
I have never ran SVR so just had a look in “Beyond”.
There isn’t actually a template in terms of Days/Week etc just the rep sceme for the main lifts each week.
So am I correct in assuming you can run SVR/SVR2 for the main lifts in any of the 2/3/4 days/wk templates?
Also Jim states that he only applies SVR2 to 1x upper + 1 x lower lift per cycle. For the other main upper/lower lift do you run “normal” 531, 5s PRO, what?