I'm here to break down this concept in a simple and friendly way, so you can decide if it's something you should incorporate into your routine (and how to do it safely). So, What Does Training to ...

“People get focused on the weight on the bar because of the term ‘load’ in progressive overload,” says Norton, but more reps ...

When you're chasing a lofty goal like maingaining, you have to understand how to go beyond your limits. Here's how.

Throughout my years of coaching and training on my own, the subject of pushing to failure (or beyond) with heavier weights or higher reps has been either the goal or something to avoid. A new ...

A few months ago, I wrote about the growing body of research suggesting that it doesn’t really matter how much weight you lift, as long as you lift to failure. A series of studies, mostly by McMaster ...

Sometimes, you have to fail to succeed in the long run – and the same can be true in the weight room. Enter: training to failure. This training method involves performing as many reps as possible with ...

When performing resistance training such as lifting weights, there's a lot of interest in how close you push yourself to failure – the point where you can't do another rep – and how it affects your ...