If your trying to gain muscle mass are u suppose to lift the weight until u cant lift it anymore (to failure)? If not then how are u suppose to lift it and how do u know when to stop?
If your trying to gain muscle mass are u suppose to lift the weight until u cant lift it anymore (to failure)? If not then how are u suppose to lift it and how do u know when to stop?
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It’s not essential that you lift until failure each and every single time. For arguments sake, when initiating your workout it’s probably best you don’t jump straight into a set where you lift until failure. Warm up with high repetitions so that you can promote blood flow and warmth.
Once the initial warm up is complete, you can then start incorporating heavier sets. You don’t HAVE to train to failure, but you should still train relatively intense in order to breakdown muscle tissue.
Combine the two. That’s my advice. That way you get the best of both worlds.
No, that could be bad (depends on the weight and muscle trained)
If u do higher weight, lets say, 20kg’s which is a bit hard for u to lift, try doing like 3 sets of 10 reps. But if u did it until failure, u will only reach like 12-13 and ur second set wont get as far as 8 and ur 3rd like only…3-4?
So, reps of a decent amount is best.
Hope i helped