I would not recommend it based on its premise. It's main premise is basically this: lifting
big when at your strongest. Now if you subscribe to that (false) premise, that muscles are best built by using heavy loads, then by all means, go ahead and follow such a method. I however do not subscribe to the more weight I can lift the better it is for my muscles to grow type of mentality. After all, we don't build in the gym, we break down in the gym and build outside of it. Furthermore, a load on the bar is relative rather than actual. By that I mean, it's the effect of more than one factor (and not just the weight on the bar) that determines the outcome of your muscle fiber stimulation. If your main goal is muscle fiber recruitment instead of muscle fiber exhaustion, then be my guest and jump right into this reverse pyramid training methodology. As a bodybuilder, I know it's all about muscle fiber exhaustion through proper muscle fiber stimulation. Muscle fiber exhaustion has never been about,
hey look how much I can lift bro! That would be moving (encouraging/emphasising) more focus towards a sport of CNS adaptation and less muscle stimulation as far as I am concerned. And that to me, distracts (if not confuses) what bodybuilding is all about. I think we've got enough of that in the sport as it is wouldn't you agree?
Please note, muscle fatigue is not restricted to a bodybuilder performing everything in one go to create the fatigue we're discussing here. I say that because fatigue can also be achieved through an accumulative process.
Some may say but Fadi, nowhere does this reverse pyramid method suggests the omitting of the higher repetition set/s. And that would be correct however, what this method is telling the bodybuilder is that your emphasis ought to be on lifting the heaviest weight possible (when fresh). My question of
why that is however, has not been addressed by the premise of this method, instead, it has taken a back seat to placing maximum emphasis on load rather than muscle fatigue, i.e. muscle fiber recruitment instead of muscle fiber exhaustion, i.e., strength sports (Olympic weightlifting/powerlifting) instead of muscle hypertrophy sport (bodybuilding). Been there done that... (please stop the confusion people)!
Having written the above, I can think of one exercise that all of us have done at one time or another in the reverse pyramid style, with great results. I'm referring to the d/bell side laterals descending sets/down the rack style. On the surface, you might think it's actually comparable with this reverse pyramid style, but it's not. Furthermore, last year I think, I wrote a shoulder routine where you would blast your side delts by performing ascending sets before immediately going down the rack for a totally different (and very deep) kind of a muscle pump.
Edit: Left out one of the most important aspect to this whole method, and possibly its weakest link: the stress it places on your joints! Common sense tells me that my joints would be a hell of a lot warmer and ready for a heavier weight
after performing few sets leading up to my maximum weight, rather than hastily jumping into it after warming up my muscles and
superficially warming up my joints. And for what?