Quote (ozzyarmy3 @ 3 Oct 2016 13:37)
I 3rd that. And yeah I plan on dropping to 210 from 220 next time. I just couldn't get those last 2 :(
Pretty close. If I can advise something here, it's to avoid planning to fail. If you felt all of your reps and sets were good, minus 2 reps, feel it out when you get in the gym. You can be on the safe side and drop to 210, or you can figure out your general energy and focus and try for 220 again. If you fail again, definitely curb it back. Up to you, ofc
If you succeed, you'll probably want to hang there until it feels like you can move up.
In the weight room and in life, remember to treat failure as a form of success. Here's why: if you try and you fail, you can try again or you can try something different to do what you want to do. If you don't try, you will never learn and you will never succeed. People who fail more often tend to be people who try more often. Therefore, paradoxically, failure is the only road to success. I have this stupid thing I do if I fail on reps. In my head, and sometimes around other people, I'll treat it like success, but only if I tried really hard. Now if I missing 3s in a league game, I'm liable to punch the ball out of the fucking gym, but that's another story.