They all have their applications. You forgot reverse pyramiding where you start at the highest weight and work down.
Personally, I assign a rep range, and when my client is able to do all his sets with a given weight at the high end of that rep range we increase the weight by 5-20%.
So, if his rep range is 6-8 and the first week he is using 200 pounds and getting 6-7 reps on all three sets. By the third or fourth week, he'll be doing 200 for more than 8 on the first and at least 8 on the third and fourth. Week four we bump the weight up to 210 and he's back down to only 6-7 per set. And thus the progressive overload continues.
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