How many can you actually do for one set? That's how you can decide what to do.

If you can barely do any then job one is to work on strenght qualities, getting the movement down, etc...so as many very low reps sets as you can would be the best way. Even if it's only one at a time. I.E. you control the fatigue and try to get the most quality work done you can. In this case your body weight would be "heavy" for you. You need to be more efficient at the movement and simply stronger.

If you can already rep it out a bit then you can simply work on adding reps. Thus the standard SS tact 3 or maybe 4 sets to failure. I would do the last set to failure. And failure in this case means the last one you can do with good form. Since it is the only exercise you will really be doing to failure "on purpose" and it is once a week for one set you should be fine. But you can always choose to not go to failure and leave one or two in the tank. But it does seem that going to failure help build endurance..or to put it more simply it helps you add reps. But never overuse it.

I would say that most people will want to be able to do 3 good sets of 8 or more before adding weight. That is not because you couldn't add weight before and do low reps to build strength...because you could and it would also be useful. BUT I would caution against this until you can handle bodyweight for more reps simply because this gives the joints time to get ready for higher weight and form will be better maintained...so you don't end up with elbow or shoulder injuries.

Find out what you can do, let us know, and we can go from there.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.