[quote]rambodian wrote:
[quote]roguevampire wrote:
Training to failure is how I’ve always trained, ever since I could remember. Lift the weight, till you can’t do another full rep. But, ive been reading more and more articles about how not training to failure, to stop 2 reps short. I read one article that says, the moment you explosiveness startes to fade, and you start grinding out the reps, you should stop the set. I now beleive its not the intensity that builds muscle, but just the over all amount of work done. And as long as you keep progressing in your workouts(adding weight) you will get bigger. I have for years would look and feel great for a few weeks, then all of sudden, id look alot smaller and feel like shit. only when I took a few days off, would i feel better again. Since i train each bodypart 2x per week on average, something had to give. I was already doing a fairly low volume workout. So now, I will be reducing the intensity to 1 or 2 reps shy of failure.
Just curious to what others think on this matter.[/quote]
Whats with the haters? he was just asking a question. He doesn’t need to prove shit to no one.
I think its a plausible theory you are going to train by, I always try to leave one rep in the tank when I am power training, but I go to failure when I train in a BB split. I usually do 3-4 months of BB split and then do a strength training method such as 531 for the next 3-4 months. I find that leaving a rep in the tank so to speak is only useful to me when strength training as it keeps me fresh for the next session.
When I am after a growth faze, I train to failure as I allow longer to recover between each body part and get better results that way. I’ve only been training for just on 2yrs so I’m certainly not an expert on it, but a guy I train with that BB all year round never trains to failure as he says it hampers his recovery and describes a situation similar to yours with feeling good than like crap. I guess if I stuck with a bb split all year round, training to failure would be pretty hard all the time.
I do find that bb training wears me down more overall, and I really need to watch my nutrition to keep my energy levels high. I’ve been carrying too much body fat the last 4 months and recently changed back to a bb program, its really hampering my training and that could be why I feel a bit run down with the bb split I’m on, but I still think training to failure with it is beneficial as I think it breaks the muscle tissue down more, well I get bloody sore DOMS with it, so it must be working.
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If you ever get a chance to watch Branch Warren train, on youtube he has some videos. He basically trains explosively, and it seems as soon as his reps lose that explosiveness, he ends the set. Since i do train bodyparts a bit more frequently than others(2x per week), this style of training may be beneficial so I can recover for each session. Time will tell.
