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“Failure” is not dropping the weight after your last moderately strenuous rep. It is pushing like you have a gun to your head. To quote the ever poetic Arthur Jones: “If you’ve never vomited from doing a set of barbell curls, then you’ve never experienced outright hard work.
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
any stimulus approaching about 90% of most systems’ maximum abilities is usually challenging and disruptive enough to yield some gains.
Dr. James Hoffmann • How Much Should I Train?: An Introduction to the Volume Landmarks (Renaissance Periodization Book 5)
Danger Testing
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A 2017 study by Morán-Navarro and colleagues showed that pushing sets to failure causes more fatigue, which seems obvious if you’ve ever done it.11 Less obvious are the consequences of training to that level of fatigue. In this study, the researchers looked at creatine kinase, an enzyme often used as a proxy for muscle damage. Creatine kinase
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