No one is asking the obvious questions.
1. What's your goal (power, strength, hypertrophy)
2. What rep range are you at when they give out?
3. What are your sets and around what set do they give out?
1. Goal is all of the above but I would rather have the muscles if I had to choose. I usually do something to cover all three.
2. Never, ever give out on HEAVY low reps. They give out only on higher reps with lighter weight. Around the 9th-12 its brutal. I am really strong at low reps high weight and not great a higher reps at all, despite focusing on higher reps solely for months now.
3. I am currently doing German volume training and supersetting Chest and Back. For instance I will do 10 sets of 10 of each exercise like this:
Bench Press supersetted (or is it supersat?) with Lat Pulldowns (do these because they are way more difficult than pullups as I can easily do 10 sets of 10 in my sleep and they are a more difficult and better movement than the pullups I have done for years and years straight) Rest time is 1:30 seconds. I do a Bench Press than immediately do the Lat Pull down both for 10 reps, then rest, then hit it again until 10 sets.
Of course this contributes greatly to the bicep fatigue factor. However, I notice it to a small degree even when just training barbell bench and just doing chest. Longer rest times seem to negate it a bit as well. I am VERY good at Heavy weight low reps, not so good at high reps as noted above.
