My understanding is intensity can only be accurately measured one of two ways, 0% and 100%. No one truely knows the exact percentage that growth is stimulated, so to bypass all possibilities training to failure was advocated.
Jones did also advocated “maintenance” workouts as a method for stress management for more advanced trainees or trainees with a low tolerance to HIT. In such workouts the trainee would stop 2 reps shy of theyre previous best reps to failure on a given exercise. Personally i found that a better option than Mike Mentzers approach taking 2-3 week layoffs and taking up till 7-10 days between workouts.
Nothing to do with being “macho” imo, its about efficiency. Minimal effective dosage. I recall being at a Dorian Yates seminar in 98, he was asked what he thought of 10x10 GVT. He replied “never seen the point in preforming sets after set with the same weight, why not just increase the weight and preform one all out set to failure?? If you really did go to failure and were to try a second set, most would be lucky to even achieve half the number of reps as the first set. But, if you really did go to true failure…then requirement for that second set would be completely redundant”.
It’s also worth highlighting again, as if often discussed on this forum, that how ‘failure’ is defined is actually nuanced. For example, I have heard Ellington Darden advise that reps should be performed without grimacing. Now compare that with Dorian Yates’ version of failure!
That’s a good way to put it. If you then look at MPS post-training, there are arguments for less frequent sessions for newer trainees and more frequent sessions for those more advanced. Training to failure is clearly going to be a more productive strategy for the former compared with the latter.
Dude I know all the theory behind it. Training to failure is just too stressful, that’s my experience, training should not be a torture. Dorian Yates? The guy was a freak on steroids, it really doesn’t matter what he was doing in the gym, so I couldn’t care less how he, Viator or Mentzer were training.
Can you casually run ten miles without breaking a sweat?
I think this is a good routine you’ve got going. The “bare minimum” to stay healthy is like… walking an hour a day.. Remember what ‘fitness’ is to the average person.
How’s the callisthenics going?
I Lift weights 3-4x/wk. Typically 3x/wk
Aside from that I like to box/kickbox (western boxing is currently my main thing, switched over from muay thai/kickboxing) and sometimes I’ll run, cycle, skip, go on a hike etc. Whatever I have time for.
I don’t usually train to failure. If I do train to failure it’ll be during boxing, deadlifts, amrap pushups or light weight exercises on machines.
As you can see I have some weighted calisthenics in that example As well as my other sessions. I initially wanted to profess into advanced calisthenics but that is not time efficient.
Figuratively. I don’t think it’s possible to run that far without sweating
What I meant is “is running 10 miles hard”
On a scale of 1-10, would you rate it an 8 or above on a scale of exertion
With tough mudders you’re running that… on terrible terrain (go to the beach and run on sand for reference as to how much difference the terrain can make without an incline) AND you’re having to do obstacles/callisthenics.
If you’re out of breath after 10 miles, imagine what a tough mudder will feel like.
For a minute there i thought i was on another particular site, one thats teeming with frustrated, salty, passive aggressive loud mouths that blame others for the poor genetics and/or lack of progress…
Best of luck though, ive a feeling your gonna need it!!
