anyone else experience this?

[wildonsquats]

Doin chest today as usual and I always come up with the same problem. First set of any compound pressing movement (usually at the beginning of most workouts) is always way way stronger than any of my following sets.

For example I did incline barbell press first thing.

245 x 14
245 x 6
245 x 6

normally if im doing straight sets with 90 seconds rest inbetween I get around 2 reps lower than the previous set.

This happens whenever I do anything like military presses, shoulder dumbbell presses, close grip bench press for tri's.

Any ideas why this may be happening?

 

[Lord_Suston]

you might want to take a little more time in between sets. sometime we don't recover fully when we rest and then we push ourselves to lift anyways. Just a thought how are your tris? I had a lag in power on later sets because my tris were not strong enough to last the whole workout...

 

[Greek Freak]

Just like suston said you may need to rest more but dont expect to be the same strength thoughout your workouts. What I do is alternate the exercises I start my workouts with so that I am fresh for different movements which keeps a big imbalance from forming. Start out with compound movements and keep going into more isolation then back to a couple compounds at the end of your workout it'll rip you apart. An example would be for chest, start out with dumbell presses, then move on to incline smith machine presses, then on to some cable flys or pec dec, then decline barbell press, then incline dumbell flys, maybe finish off with flat barbell press...if i did this workout I would do 3 sets on first exersice, then 1-2 on all the rest. I also do some workouts where I focus more on one movement...the more you change things up, the better.

 

[bigdelt69]

i would say the biggest factor is not resting enough. Those huge compound lifts take a large amount of energy to move.