Going until failure?

We’ve all heard that saying sometime in our gym life’s, but does that technique really live up to its name? I never really thought about going to failure when i first started my lifting journey. I just always thought that doing mid-rate weights to heavy-rate weights at an intensity level rep count of 1-8 would increase my chances of growing. Well it worked out for a while but didn’t last, going back to my old blog post about “Hitting a plateau” this method seems to do well for a lot of people. This method does not apply to the personal record (pr) kind of lifting just because its more of hitting a heavy set of weights for a rep or two to see where we stand as in power. This method is for growth (keeping count for this is totally up to you), but in order for this method to actually work you’ll have to find a weight-range of what you’ll be able to lift until your muscles are gassed out (you’re going to feel like poop but it’ll be worth it).

First to the list is drop-sets: Lets say for example, you are doing barbell rows and you have 5 sets total, but you split it in way where your rep counts are as follows: 15, 12, 10, 8 and 6 reps. Typically you would want your weight-range to about 20%-30% simply because you want your muscles to come to its breaking point. As for the as set if you feel as if the weight have gotten to light keep pushing until that breaking point happens.