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hmm....true.....i just thought 8x3 would be more fun to be honest. i should have thought this through correctly. im sorry. next time, im gonna resist from being impulsive. if i fail next time then i will reduce the weight and do as u said. sorry E.
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It's not that I see something wrong with 8x3 or your goal of
10x3. Just not in this context. 10x3 is usually done in a very specific way. Using your 5 or 6 RM and going with short rest periods. Not more than two minutes and probalby going for less. If you're using 80 or 85%, a relatively light weight for 3 reps, then a long rest period would make it all a waste of time. Better to do the 5 or 6 reps for a few sets. On the other hand if you are going heavy to the point where you can't do a full ten sets and then you add sets you got two things: you can't progress very long like that without burning out and it's too much heavy work since you already just did you heavy bench. But 10x3 in and of itself is cool.
But one central point I was getting at besides whatever I've already mentioned is start down a path and that path allows progression then use that path. Because being specific and not skipping around randomly results in the most specific adaptations.
I did want to mention a little more about the whole rep range question. I think it is important in general that I meant it is perfectly reasonable for things on the so-called heavy days to get into moderate rep ranges the reps on the "light days" should certainly never get into the low ranges. So like I said they may meet in the middle.
But even so the low rep days can go pretty high and that can work. You want to avoid huge increases in volume but even then the nature of this type of progression means that the volume will go back down as the load goes up.
I noticed in your original write-up of the routine that the bench press on the second upper day you have and option of as low as 6 reps. I'm not sure where that came from but that I would avoid. I did see that you did 10 reps for you first workout which is fine but 8 reps would have allowed you more upper mobility. But yeah 6 reps could be cutting the load way too high. On the other hand if you had to add more reps to the pin presses and went up to 8 that would be fine if it allowed you to then load the bar. Keep in mind that in a general sense it works better to keep higher volume workouts for later in the week where you have a weekend to recover so I would avoid adding a lot of sets to the first two workouts so as to keep the volume relatively low. But you are on this for such a finite period I doubt it's gonna matter too much.