WHEN SHOULD YOU TRAIN TO FAILURE!?
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The worst feeling is when your grinding and working your ass off, and you feel like your pushing it in the gym every time, but your still not getting the strength or the physique gains that you want to make. Which is the worst cause your putting in all this time and energy into the gym and the payout is little to none at times, and a big misconception is this idea of training to failure in my opinion!
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I see a lot of guys training hard at the gym which is good! That means that they’re ambitious to reach their fitness goals , which is great! I love that energy, however, I do see guys training to absolute failure on almost every exercise at times. This could actually be preventing you from seeing the progress you want in a sense! I’m not saying don’t train to failure ever, I’m saying there is a time and place for it
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So you want to strategically train to failure, I typically don’t train to full failure for my compound movements really. But when I do it’s most likely because I’m going for heavy singles, double triples, etc. it’s not like 4 sets to failure. It’s me pushing my limits more so with heavy weight , but most people associate training to absolute failure with burn out sets of higher repetitions(15-30 reps). I do use that rep scheme for my accessory movements at times! Or sometimes I’ll just go until I can’t do anymore!(aka till failure)
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However tho if you constantly train to failure every set, then the rest of your workout might not be as optimal! And if the rest of your workout isn’t optimal then your results aren’t gonna be as optimal simple as that. So I would save the training till failure for the end of your workout, where you can really just burn out, and all your main exercises for the day are done and you finish up the movements that involve heavier weight.
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But you most definitely don’t always need to train till failure, you want to just make sure every week or every other week you are simply are increasing the weight of your exercises, increasing amount of reps you did, or decreasing rest time. That’s how your body is really gonna start putting on strength and with that lean muscle mass. Your body will also adapt eventually to always training till failure, especially if failure for you is maybe 25 reps on a certain exercise and you always stay around 25 reps with the same weight you won’t be progressing!
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Hope you guys found this one interesting.
