Doesn't the book say what to do? Judging from his past articles, Chad tells people to pick a load in which you can just do the last rep of the last set. If you can't do all 10 (just barely) in that last set, then you went too heavy back in set #1.
It's highly unlikely that you could have a very challenging weight for the 1st 10 and the last 10 (in a 5x10) There's a lot of reps in between to cause fatigue. Likely, you will feel like you could have done 2-3 more at the end of the first set.
There are obviously different philosophies from different coaches. You could also start with a slightly higher weight and drop down in a later set OR keep the weight that's challenging from set #1 and progressively do less reps, but if that's not Chad's philosophy, are you really doing Chad's program?
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