Strength Training Intensity - How Much is Optimal
"My approach to training has always been to push yourself in your workouts, but do not TRAIN TO FAILURE. The last rep should be difficult, but not impossible or unachievable. I’ve always been a great believer that you should leave the gym each day feeling like you had a great workout but you’ve still got a little bit left in the gas tank" Bill Pearl
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The latest issue of Muscle & Fiction and all the High-Intensity zealots would have you believe that if you don’t take a set to absolute muscular failure, you are wasting your time. That just isn’t true. On an effective strength training program for the natural lifter, most sets should stop 1 or 2 repetitions short of failure