Chest Fucking Press

fucking chest press. what do i do when i do 12 reps the first set, wait a minute, do only 8 the second, wait another minute, and barely eek out 5 reps? Is this natural? Shouldn't I be able to do my 8-12 if I did 12 the first set? I really don't want to lower the weight for my second and third set. What should I do?

Rest more. Jesus Christ...

how long?

4-6 mins for high intensity strength training

2-3 min for hypertrophy

Or just until you personally feel you have fully recovered from your last set.

That seems a little much. I mean thanks for the reply buy like isn't 2-3 min a little much?

Don't go balls out on the first set. It's better to cap it at 10 reps if that means you can also do 10 reps in the 2nd and 3rd set. That equals 30 good reps which is more than 25(12+8+5).

And make sure you rest enough that your performance isn't compromised on the next set.
You CAN choose to take the 1st set all the way to failure but then you'll have to rest for a long ass time before you're ready again, and that's simply inefficient. If you like going all-out, what you can do is take the LAST set to failure so it doesn't influence performance on subsequent sets.

Is the first set of 12 failure (i.e. could you get more than 12)? You don't need to go to failure every set. I typically pick a weight that I can definitely hit my numbers for the first 2 set and then fail on the third. When I hit all the reps I add weight and repeat.

Not for a big compound lift like that.

NO, 2-3 minutes at least. Try the full 3

Specifying how many minutes to rest is cool as a guideline, but at the end of the day it comes down to whether or not you're ready. Simple as that.
Some days your interset recovery is better than other days, some days you push your sets harder and need more recovery. If you're world class strong you need more recovery. If your cardio system is awesome you need less recovery etc.