Oh of course. There are no rules to it. In this case you've general increased the reps and thus greatly increased the volume.
Or your could have started with 2 rep clusters then went to one with increased weight. Or you can maintain volume and just increase weight…which would usually be microloading like you planned.
Theoretically a cluster could be done in any way you can imagine up to I'd say about 3 reps. I don't thing anything more than three reps is really practical. That DC stuff is not really clusters it's post failure training. Not the same thing AT ALL.
But look at pullups. You were talking about increasing volume. Well say your best set of bw pullups was 10 reps. You could do three rep clusters with the goal of pulling off more reps. Iit would still be clusters.
You can also combine clusters with density training.
For instance say you took that 10 rep pullup and you did 3 rep clusters. So that you do:
1. 3 x 5 (minisets) —- so 15 total reps instead of ten
2. 3 x 6 (minisets) —— so 18 total reps (this takes around 96 seconds)
3. Density training with 18 reps in less than 1.5 minutes (so say you do 18 reps in 1 minute 20 seconds)
4. Density training for 1:20 seconds with at least 19 reps or more.
That's just an example. Maybe ambitious as hell of course but it's just an example.
The goal would be to increase your volume in general. It wouldn't matter how that panned out when you went back to straight sets as long as your volume increased overall.
I'm not saying you should do that it's just an example of the versatility of clusters.
Or your could have started with 2 rep clusters then went to one with increased weight. Or you can maintain volume and just increase weight…which would usually be microloading like you planned.
Theoretically a cluster could be done in any way you can imagine up to I'd say about 3 reps. I don't thing anything more than three reps is really practical. That DC stuff is not really clusters it's post failure training. Not the same thing AT ALL.
But look at pullups. You were talking about increasing volume. Well say your best set of bw pullups was 10 reps. You could do three rep clusters with the goal of pulling off more reps. Iit would still be clusters.
You can also combine clusters with density training.
For instance say you took that 10 rep pullup and you did 3 rep clusters. So that you do:
1. 3 x 5 (minisets) —- so 15 total reps instead of ten
2. 3 x 6 (minisets) —— so 18 total reps (this takes around 96 seconds)
3. Density training with 18 reps in less than 1.5 minutes (so say you do 18 reps in 1 minute 20 seconds)
4. Density training for 1:20 seconds with at least 19 reps or more.
That's just an example. Maybe ambitious as hell of course but it's just an example.
The goal would be to increase your volume in general. It wouldn't matter how that panned out when you went back to straight sets as long as your volume increased overall.
I'm not saying you should do that it's just an example of the versatility of clusters.
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