Is Going To Failure Necessary For Muscle Building?
Many feel that every set of every exercise you perform in your workout routine must “go to failure”, meaning you must take the set to the point where you can’t complete one more rep.
Is this a necessary trigger for muscle building? Many workout programs say yes, such as versions of High Intensity Training and the likes.
Well, many have come to find out that in the REAL WORLD, that’s not the case. As a matter of fact, going to failure on every set could actually slow down the muscle building process.
Scientists in Spain found that when 42 men trained to failure on all working sets for 4 months, they had lower levels of testosterone and IGF-1 (all muscle building hormones), yet had higher levels of cortisol (a muscle-destroying hormone).
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