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I was lying to myself about RIR

I started filming my lifts some and apparently my 1 RIR was like 3 or 4 reps left half the time. Wanted the set to actually look hard on camera and turns out I could go way more than I thought.

Anyone else wildly bad at judging RIR?

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an occasional set to actual failure is a brutal RIR calibration check. machines are perfect for it since you can find out how wrong you were without getting folded under a squat

Yeah, most people don't work out hard enough