Muscular Failure

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Muscular Failure

Hi Josh,

Is it okay to go muscular failure on pull-ups and dips?

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by: Josh -- Author WLC System

Within the WLC System Manual, I explain how to find the optimal weight lifting intensity for yourself. When I say weight lifting intensity, I mean how far you push yourself on each exercise and each set.

If you are just starting into weight training, I explain that you should stop each set short of muscular failure. When the rep speed begins to slow down, then you can stop each set.

As you learn more about your individual recovery abilities, you can begin to push yourself further on each set of each exercise. You can start out by going to failure on a few of the body weight exercises and stopping short of failure on all the other exercises.

As long as you are making small strength gains each workout, you are recovering just fine.

So starting out... stop each exercise short of failure. The WLC System teaches you how to measure progress. You will make progress stopping each set short of failure, but you can make better progress by pushing yourself as long as your body can handle it.

In other words, you have to find out what YOUR body can handle. Everyone is different. Everything affects this amount too and that's why you optimize everything with the WLC System. Sleep, diet, water intake, pre and post workout, etc. Everything affects the amount of weight training intensity you can handle.

Hope this helps explain everything for you.

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