Training to Failure
Question: What’s your opinion of training to failure and getting overly worked up in the gym? What kind of impact does it have on getting stronger?
Answer: First, I believe everyone has to go to failure and get overly worked up. At least one time. This is because people need to cross the line first to know where the line is. Since everyone is very different with this, people need to learn where their limits are.
For example, you often hear someone telling a lifter to stop a set .one or two reps before failure.. Well, if you don’t know where failure is or how it feels than you are going to have a hard time figuring this out.
There are no absolutes in training so I can’t tell someone not to do this. Sometimes it’s fun to do this stuff. But doing this every day or even once a week is usually a recipe for failure. You will be exhausted, both mentally and physically, and your next training session will probably be compromised.
This doesn’t mean that you don’t push yourself or don’t exert yourself. You have to learn how to attack the weights without actually attacking the weights.
