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Originally Posted by Silock
Perceived exertion is not a valid way to measure progress and it never has been. Some days, I feel like I'm having a shit workout and I end up setting a PR. Some days, I feel great, but never reach my prescribed lifts. There is no way I would know I was progressing if I weren't keeping track.
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I don't look at progress in the gym in terms of daily minutia. It's more of a harmonious total body result that is the sum of short and long term aesthetics versus the need for immediate satisfaction brought about by incremental gains in strength.
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What does that even mean? Yes, if you continue to do a lift and keep progressing, you will, at some point, plateau. And that's okay. You can't keep going up and up forever. But it isn't the repetition that is causing a plateau. Improper training methods cause plateaus, as well as natural physical limitations.
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No, you can't and that's where the variations in the workout come into play, helping to alleviate the potential for negative emotional and psychological implications which could subsequently adversely affect the physical side of the workout.
With no real numerical goal or historical reference to such, I'm not allowing myself into being constrained or impacted by failing to reach a certain goal or even noting a degradation in my overall performance.