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Poll _How often do you train to failure??

How often do you train to failure??


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It puts alot of stress in the Central Nervous System. So I train to failure once a week then I start a deload week so my CNS recovers. I have only been lifting for 5 months so my CNS wont take alot of stress.
 
That article is incredibly simplified and doesn't do a very good job at what it's trying to say and even that is questionable.

Let's just say that from my own lifting experiences and having observed others lifting off and on for past 17 years I can say that overtraining is indeed pretty easy to do while training and that training to failure on every set is a great way to bring that about.

True overtraining is something that most lifter's won't ever experience, but reduction in gains from the gym and outright stalled progress for long periods of time is an incredibly common occurance in gyms throughout the world and many, many times it's not related to how hard the lifter is training.

It see lifters all the time that routinely go to failure on all their sets and guess what? Not much has changed in the past 8 months with them.

I'm rapidly approaching the point I am going to surpass a guy at the gym on the bench press because he trains 5x a week using your typical bodybuilder style program and goes to failure on every set. He hasn't leaned out any more than when I first met him. He just told me yesterday that he took 3 days off from the gym and to him that was a looong time and he couldn't wait to get back into the gym. I looked at the guy and said I don't think twice about taking a week off from the gym every now and then or going 3-5 days between lifting sessions. Guess what, I'm still getting stronger.

This kinda shocked the guy. And it's not like he's not trying to get stronger. His body is constantly in a state of fatigue and it's pretty obvious to me what his problem is. I know because I went through the same thing in highschool for the better part of 2 years. I didn't do leg or lowerback work at all for the most part, but I did pretty much all the upperbody exercises and I never got past benching 160lbs for 5 reps at a bodyweight of around 168lbs. I busted my fuckin ass on the exercises I did do. Every set to momentary muscular failure. Pushing each set to the limit was not hard for me to accomplish. I ate alot for my bodyweight at the time. Even though I didn't do direct leg work I still should have gained more bodyweight and gotten stronger than I was. Being in a constant state of physical disrepair from overtraining will literally halt weight gain and strength gain.

Then I got into Mentzer's stuff and bought into his flawed ideas for a looong time. Thankfully a guy by the name of madcow2 posted on this forum years ago and shed light on the subject which drastically changed my training forever and many others, for the better.

Hard work is required to get stronger and bigger, but forcing it is not the way to go. Listening to your body while doing your best to apply known and quantifiable lifting principles is the way to go.

Eh, getting tired of talking about this. Basically I think that article sucked.
 
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