I'm with LD on this one. I'm almost positive Chad wants you to stick with the same weight with all the sets.
Oldguy is right in principle but I don't think it's used in this application.
The goal is to activate and fatigue muscle fibers. In theory you're firing the same amount of muscle fibers to lift 200lbs one time as you would 50 times. If you're lifting with your 80% 1RM for a lift you're activating enough muscle for strength and hypertrophy gains. You activate the muscle by lifting the weight, you fatigue it with volume. If you're doing the volume with the weight then you make gains. If you increase the volume or weight or both you create overload...anything above and beyond what you're doing RIGHT NOW creates overload.
IMO if you're working with someone that's fairly young and\or really athletic and\or are training for a real life (sports) application then you want balls out, max strength...push it all, all the time until I the intelligent trainer knows when you've had enough regardless of the scheme, then the max overload at every turn is certainly the way to go. For average joe trying to look a little better or lift a little more I don't think it's very smart.
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