Half reps get half results. The mirror knows even if your coach doesn’t.

Cutting the range short quietly removes the hardest part of the movement, which is the part doing the work. Nobody has to catch you for the arithmetic to hold, because a body responds only to what actually happened, not to what got written down or watched. Effort is not something you can round up.

Take the weight down and do the full version this week, even if the number embarrasses you at first. Count only the reps you would be willing to have filmed. Progress built this way is slower to start and it is the kind that keeps going.