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Posts: 1,240
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Plan: UDS
Stats: 199/190/190
BF:12%/11%/6%
Progress: 100%
Location: Pflugerville, TX
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Originally Posted by sandygrady
Wow kbfunTH-
Thanks for all those links. They will definately keep me busy for a while. I never understood how one could "train as heavy as possible" without going to failure...seems to me that if you are attempting to do 8 reps and you are training as heavy as possible, that you would at the very least want to hit momentary failure on your last set, if not every set. Otherwise, you aren't training as heavy as you could??
Sandy
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Training heavy means training with high percentages of your 1 rep maximum => 85%. One of the reasons for avoiding failure is so that training frequency can be greater.
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