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Train to Failure?

  • 05-03-2009 3:58pm
    #1
    goonersnroses
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Hi,

    When your doing reps and your not to "train to Failure" what the hell is that?
    Is it when you begin to get tired you stop? Why?

    Cheers


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  • #2
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    When you cannot complete your last rep with good form you have gone to failure. Like if you did bicep curls and would have to swing it up to get another rep out, or drop it down half way up exhausted.

    Many say not to go to failure since it is quite taxing on your CNS (central nervous system) and can take longer to recover from. With experience and proper tracking and note taking you can either predict/calculate or just feel when you are coming near failure and stop before it, with 1-2 reps still "in the bag".

    Going to failure on some exercises is dangerous, like the squat or bench press.


  • #3
    goonersnroses
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭goonersnroses


    Cheers for that rubadub,

    It makes more sense to me now. Think it was just explained badly to me before.


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