HIT FAILURE: Observations, Conversations, and Clarification

[pettersson]

@Christian_Thibaudeau made a terrific explanation why not going to failure here. Brilliant!

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Muscle failure doesn’t provide a significant benefit over stopping on the last quality rep you can do. Going to muscle failure SIGNIFICANTLY increases central fatigue, which reduces the strength of the excitatory drive to the muscles, making it harder to recruit the high threshold motor units (which require a stronger drive to get activated, hence the HIGH THRESHOLD name) which are connected to the fast-twitch fibers; the ones with the significant growth potential. The more sets you go t…