Be careful - you may encounter muscle failure. Is it dangerous?
Most of those who regularly train do not train until they completely give up. Those who do this are usually bodybuilders or powerlifters, people engaged in strength training at competitions, or pursuing a specific goal to build big muscles.What is a workout to failure?
The way the body builds muscle is by lifting more weight than it can handle. We overload the muscles so that they adapt by increasing the amount of muscle fibers (to cope with this extra weight). The final form of overload consists in training until a short-term muscle failure, in which the maximum number of motor units and muscle fibers is involved. That's why many bodybuilders use this type of training. But there is no consensus that this is always the best way to build muscle mass.
The idea is to do as many reps as you can, in good shape, until you get tired. Then continue until you can barely do the last repetition.
Potential drawbacks
Despite the fact that it is important to lift heavy weights, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, a bodybuilder or not, training to failure is not always suitable. They have their drawbacks:
This can lead to injury. Doing this over and over again, you risk getting injured and overtraining.
Maybe it's not necessary. There is still no consensus as to whether total rejection is really the best way to build big muscles.
This requires more rest time. The harder you work, the more you need to rest and the less exercise you can do in general. This means that you don't train as much, and this is a hindrance, since volume is an important part of any strength program.
It hurts to train to failure. It is very difficult to achieve muscle failure every time you do an exercise. It loads your body and your mind, and it's very difficult to push yourself to it if you're not motivated by the competition.
Tips for effective learning
Instead of constantly working out until muscle failure, consider doing it in some exercises or during some workouts. This can be a way to periodize your workouts and focus on cycles in which you work on the intensity of training and lifting to failure, and then on cycles in which you focus more on volume and avoid working to complete failure.
You can also incorporate a full-on workout into your regular workouts by selecting a muscle group or exercise (like push-ups, biceps arm bends, or triceps push-ups) and seeing how far you can get. But remember that even if you don't train to failure, you're still doing something good for your body when you lift weights.
