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Is Going to Failure the Best Workout for Muscle Building?

16 Dec 2009

16 Dec, 2009  muscle body building

There is so much cofusion around this subject amongst the fitness professionals. It is a very highly debated subject and so many people have so different opinions about it. Should you train to failure or should you avoid training to failure? What is the best method for mscle building?

A lot of exeperts, who believed that you should go to failure on a regular basis, if the goal was to build muscle have now come to a different conclusion. The problem however is that you can not train train with high volume and high intensity. If you use high reps and go to failure every time then you will burn yourself out. It is wise not to go to failure using high reps.

You eather lower your volume or leave something in the tank when doing higher volume training. But anyone who wants to gain muscle quickly loves to train hard. It is very hard to go to the gym and hold back. The idea is to test your limits and go all out every time. If you keep your training volume low you can safely go to failure on every set without having to worry about overtraining.

I have put this to practice myself. I like to use the 6-8 rep range during my workouts. Then I can go to failure without burning myself out. I usually spend about an hour or sometimes a little more in the gym lifting weights and no more. The idea again is to keep the volume low and the intensity high. You go to the gym, give it your all and then get out. That way your body has time to recover and during recover is when muscle is built

There is one other thing that I would like to say. Going to failure means that you should stop when you can no longer complete another rep in good form. Especially when you are doing squats or bench press.

Low volume plus high intensity is the best workout for muscle building

Rando Meresmaa
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6 Responses

  1. evalistinho

    2009 Dec 16 1

    To build, tone and workout your muscles with push ups crunches and dips do you do them till muscle failure?
    or do you do them in sets with reps. how should i do them to get the maximum benefit?

  2. force factor

    2009 Dec 16 2

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  3. squishymallo

    2009 Dec 16 3

    You’re asking 2 questions here. To tone muscles, you do reps until tired, not failure. To build you pull as much weight as safely possible until failure. For both, rest 24-48 hours between workouts to give your muscles time to rebuild.
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  4. duce

    2009 Dec 16 4

    I use a routine for each exercise consisting of a certain number of sets and reps
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  5. attitude600_9

    2009 Dec 16 5

    Doing your sets to failure all the time is inefficient. When you do it to failure you have to take at least 3-4 days off, but when you do your sets 2-3 reps short of failure you won’t need as many days off.
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  6. jim c

    2009 Dec 16 6

    You should aim for failure at least in 50% of your sets. Let the rep range dictate what type of result you achieve. For example, if you fail in the 8-12 rep range, you will build muscle. If you fail in the rep range of 15 or beyond, your muscles will take on a more toned appearance. Finally, it will not take long for you to go beyond 12 reps doing push-ups, so you will need to move on to lifting weights if you expect to grow beyond what the push-ups deliever.
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