Training to Failure

xJaegar · 2020-12-28T09:35:01+00:00

I personally wouldn't recommend doing every set to failure because it's going to mess up your other sets. I do all my sets close to failure except from the last one which I do to failure.

Aubrey_D_Graham · 2020-12-28T11:30:37+00:00

For most training, it's bad. Failure overtaxes the body and degrades future sessions. There is a place for it in hypertrophy training.

Jdamoftruth · 2020-12-28T11:41:05+00:00

It's not necessary to take every set to failure all the time. You should be progressively overloading which is the most important thing.

Problem is most people have never trained with any intensity at all what they think "failure" is isn't failure and is just starting to burn a little.

Generally at least 10 working sets should be done if you are training the body part twice per week so you are getting in at least 20+ working sets per week.

Edit: aimed at the natural lifters as I am a natural and this probably has influence on the correct answer as it would be different for those on PED’s

You shouldn't even be thinking of this copout bullshit. The reason you won't grow is because you train like shit. PEDs only help recovery a bit. Even with a shitty program they won't work.

RichieTheWise · 2020-12-28T13:44:01+00:00

Another question, anyone else experiences extreme fatique or light headedness/shortness of breath after working out to failure? Perhaps it's my health condition but was wondering if anyone relates to it

Zaltzie · 2020-12-28T14:08:38+00:00

Last set of that particular muscle group no one big goes to failure every set.

i-am-the-prize · 2020-12-28T17:16:17+00:00

volume is king.

And training to failure usually means longer recovery times and fewer sets and reps per week.

imagine, routine #1:

3x12 to failure on Monday
3x 12 to failure on Thursday
72 total reps/week

routine #2:

3x 9 on Monday
3x 9 on Wednesday
3x 9 on Friday
81 total reps/week

same weight lifted, but 13% more volume in routine #2. After a year, you'd have done 468 more reps with routine #2...

which would make you bigger?

there's a lot we don't know about hypertrophy and what we do seems it's observed through trial and error -and until you find a specific routine that works better for you, through logging and journal'ing and trial and error - go with volume.

Title	Training to Failure
Author	diablowolf5
Upvotes	1
Comments	9
Date	December 28, 2020 9:30 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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