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Not Training to Muscle Failure May Enhance Muscle Endurance
Training strategy needs to match training objectives.
By Shirley Archer, JD, MA
Aug 10, 2020
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In another study examining weight training protocols, researchers from Brazil and the United States found that not performing repetitions to failure—i.e. stopping short of that—may be more effective at increasing muscle size (in the vastus lateralis) and muscle endurance performance in untrained individuals than training to failure.
The study is available in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (2020; 34 [5], 1237–48).
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