Is it necessary for people to assess their one repetition maximum before going into these sorts of programmes? No, not at all. I think a more intuitive way is to take a repetition range. Don't worry about intensity, don't worry about rep ranges. Or any of these things, you need to learn to move correctly and develop some tissue tolerance so that you're not overtly sore. It's a terrible proxy for exercise quality. In general we do not use sorness as a metric of a good workout. So if you want to spend most of your time in the post-workout period feeling like you've done three or four sets of five repetitions,  don't leave with

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