E45: How Often Should You Be Trai...
E45: How Often Should You Be Training To Complete Muscle Failure?

Small Gains: The Inclusive Strength and Running Podcast by Lucinda Livingstone

Episode notes

Today, we’re exploring you should always train to muscle failure and if not, how often should you?

I discuss what the evidence says, effective reps theory, cluster sets, RIR, RPE, what true failure actually is, and how this can all benefit your own training, as well as going into how I work with my clients on all of this to help their strength increase continuously.

As always any questions let me know, and happy lifting!

  • 00:53 Should you train to muscle failure every time?
  • 01:38 The 'Effective Reps' Theory
  • 02:34 Cluster Sets Close To Failure
  • 04:32 Continuous Sets Vs Cluster Sets
  • 05:16 What is true failure?
  • 05:55 Law Of Diminishing Returns For Working Near Failure
  • 07:30 As Always, The Nuance
  • 08:07 How I Use Training Intensity With My Clients
  • 10:20 Some Simple  ... 
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