Are you a failure!

[john11]

Just wanted to know, How often do you go to failure: once a week, or more/less often.

Do you carry on until you are tired, or more a mentzer type of failure, or beyond mentzer?

Thanks.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Once a week per muscle. When I see stars and my face is purple that's when I'm in the zone. So when this happens I go one allout set most reps I can with 2 rest pauses.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

Just wanted to know, How often do you go to failure: once a week, or more/less often.

Do you carry on until you are tired, or more a mentzer type of failure, or beyond mentzer?

Thanks.

There’s a time and place for all 3 of the concepts you mentioned.

Unless you are on an organized deload I don’t think any training session should pass without atleast one set to true failure, though. Tired isn’t failure. That’s where growth starts.

 

[john11]

If you go to failure once per week, does that mean you train each muscle only once per week, is that how long it takes to recover, or do you anything else in the meantime.

Just to clarify, what kind of failure is it, do you do as many as you can by yourself, then end it there, or do you have a spotter help you force out a few more so that it becomes more like a mentzer type failure.

Thanks.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

If you go to failure once per week, does that mean you train each muscle only once per week, is that how long it takes to recover, or do you anything else in the meantime.

Just to clarify, what kind of failure is it, do you do as many as you can by yourself, then end it there, or do you have a spotter help you force out a few more so that it becomes more like a mentzer type failure.

Thanks.

If you alone 100% if with spotter 1000% but you must have the right training partner

 

[FourOneDeuxFitt]

I think your question also depends on what kind of split an individual is running too. For instance with myself I have and upper and lower body power day at the beginning on each week where half of the workout I’m working in a 3-5 rep range and each set leaving maybe 1 rep in the tank and last set going balls to the wall. Later in the week on hypertrophy days I work in the 8-12,12-15,15-20 rep ranges for each muscle group and on those I only take the exercises for each body part that are in the 15-20 rep range to failure. All the other sets for those workouts are being done with a weight that would allow me to progressively hit my rep range with still leaving maybe 3 hard reps left in the tank at the end of each set.

 

[CJames]

Every set

 

[john11]

Thanks!
I think most are saying that they would train each bodypart to failure once a week, which is what i am trying to find out.

I have heard it mentioned on this forum a few times, but what do you think of an adaptation of pavel's russian greasing the groove kind of program. I am trying to figure out if the following would work well.
Here is what i am thinking of doing:
For back work, do one set of light easy chins every hour, amounting to about ten sets a day in total, then go to failure once a week using one set of chins and one set of rows, to hit the upper and lower back.

Also with the chins everyday do a set of light dips for the chest and light squats for the legs. Then perform a few chest exercises once a week to failure and a few legs exercises to failure, but do the failure routine for each bodypart on different days, so something like chest to failure on monday, legs to failure on wednesday and back to failure on friday.

What do you think