One of the things that caught my eye that Mike Joplin said he used sometimes was drop sets. I use to do these with dumbells for differant exercises. I'm no expert but there are differant ways to use them. The way I did it was use your starting weight and do your set. Then immediatlly go to the next dumbell size down. I would keep on going to the next lighter dumbell. I use to call this running the rack.

The way I understand drop sets is it's a bodybuilding technique.It allows you to keep a set going after you're fatiqued. With weights you do this by using a lower weight and sometimes less reps.Mike said drop-sets are POWERFUL! for pump and mass. Like I said there are differant ways you can do drop sets. I know there are more but here is a couple of ways: 1) conventional like I mentioned2)partials 3)6-20 method 4)switch to a differant exercise variation 5) rest pause. If you know more please add to the list. But to me running the rack was drop sets and everything else was everything else.

Can this be applied to bodyweight,self resistence,or DVRs? of course it can. Not sure about Iso's. Lets take the pushup as an example. Lets start with an inclined diamond push up. Do your set like two reps before failure. Then immediatlly do military push up,then knee knee push ups. What you're doing is starting with a harder exercise and working your way doing to easier exercises. This can be done with almost any calisthenics.

The 6-20 method can be used with cals and FMTs. With calisthenics you pick a harder exercise say like the one arm assisted pushups and do 6 reps. Then right after pick an easier exercise like military push ups and do 20 reps. With FMT you just adjust the tension. More tension for 6 reps and right after less tension for 20 reps.

For me drop sets can be ascending like this 6,12,20 or descending like this 12,8,6,4,2. The idea is that your trying to keep the set going by adjusting differant variables to try to achevie a pump. Here is a rest pause version that Mike Joplin used that could also be used for self resistence or DVRs.

''This is what I’ll do sometimes. I’ll type out a string of numbers like this: 5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12. If I’m doing decline push-ups (feet elevated, my favorite), I’ll start by doing 5 reps, and then I’ll rest for 5 seconds. (By keeping my rest periods the same as my rep numbers, I can easily remember my last rep number.) Then I’ll progress down (actually “up” the string until I get to 12 (if I make it that far). If I’m still feeling rather fresh, I’ll go back to the beginning and start over and go until I’ve had enough.

If the 5 – 12 sequence gets too easy, I’ll start doing 1-1/2 reps, or for each series of numbers I’ll do the same number of partials reps at the top or bottom. Or I can start doing one arm push-ups. The options and variations are almost endless…''

Word of advice becareful with these techniques if you use them. To much to soon you will get sore. I wouldn't use them to often. Once maybe twice a week depending on your recovery abilities.