Do You Need to Train Your Muscles to Failure To Gain Strength?

This is a quick video that looks at the benefits and risks associated with strength training by taking your muscles to failure. Just like most questions relating to health and fitness the answer is not that simple and to find what works best for you it requires a better understanding of how to use the appropriate amount of intensity with your training to maximize your effort in the gym.
Make sure you read the full article in the link below that expands upon the concepts I briefly discuss in the video.
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There are two types of exercise failures that you will come across. One is perfectly fine but the other is something to avoid and potentially damaging to your body.
This damaging version is called “complete failure”. That’s when you force out as many reps as possible until you physically can’t move the weight anymore and have used every type of compensatory method possible to complete the set.
The better version of muscle failure is called “technical failure”, which is when you perform as many reps as you can but maintain perfect form to complete the set. When you reach the point where that’s no longer possible, your set is done. Any excessive compensation or movement is to be avoided at all costs.
Now so far it sounds like you should not train too hard and avoid pushing yourself. This is not what you want to do either, as you can go too far to the other extreme and achieve nothing.
There are many people that avoid working too hard and always stop well short of failure and make sure they get to 10 reps with every exercise they do. Stopping at 10 reps in a set when you could have done 15 or 16 reps to failure, is inferior for muscle growth and achieves very little from your time working out.
In order to maximize your training efforts it’s crucial that you get close enough to failure during your sets to still maximize growth. Notice how I underlined the words close enough to failure for this is the secret to achieving great results without the risk of injury or overtraining. That said, most people underestimate the number of reps they can actually do to failure and end up training too easy as a result. Over time they wonder why they are not getting the results they desire.
In the book “Glute Lab” by Bret Contreras he discusses the topic of intensity and going to failure with strength training in great detail comparing several scientific studies to find what works best. What he found is that only the last five reps of any set contribute the most towards muscle building growth.
Stopping 1-2 reps short of the very last rep is still a very demanding and difficult to do and I would argue may be the best option for most people. You can still maximize muscle growth but without accumulating excessive fatigue and also losing form and risking injury to your joints.
Finding the perfect balance between too much and not enough is the secret. You will find the articles in the links below useful in finding this balance.
How to avoid over training
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How to enhance recovery
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Why You Should Never Sacrifice Exercise Technique
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Training to failure can be a good thing but if it is done too often it can lead to problems. In this video I share with a great way to avoid making the mistake many make by training too hard all the time