A Crash Course in Training to Failure: How to Use it Appropriately | PD Podcast ep. 144
Channel: Physique Development
Date: 18/12/2023

We have a special guest today - Physique Development’s Coach Charlotte joins us to discuss training to failure. Training to failure is when you absolutely cannot perform another rep while keeping good form but there are multiple different types of failure. Listen in as Alex and Charlotte dig into failure plus hear Charlotte’s own experiences when training to true failure. 

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Timestamps:
(0:00) Introduction
(0:30) Why Charlotte is so excited to build a home gym
(3:48) Today's topic: a deep dive into training to failure
(4:13) Defining what training to "failure" really means
(5:50) Breaking down the different types of failure
(6:00) 1) Psychological failure
(9:20) 2) Systemic/cardiovascular fatigue
(12:26) 3) Local muscular failure
(22:31) 4) Technical failure
(29:39) Mental benefits of training to failure
(33:32) Hypertrophy benefits of training to failure
(37:02) Prerequisites you need before starting to attempt to push sets to failure
(42:22) Charlotte's first experience pushing to failure
(46:28) The worst & best exercises to push to failure
(48:24) How we encourage clients to get comfortable with failing safely
(50:37) Training to failure if you train alone
(52:23) Pushing compound vs accessory movements to failure
(54:26) The differences between lengthened vs shortened-biased movements when pushing to failure
(58:27) Final thoughts

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