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Originally Posted by lawyerjoke
But the idea of going to failure on something like squats or deads -- where a break in form can seriously hurt you -- just seems counterintuitive.
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I'm more thinking about the idea of stopping a set as soon as the form starts to degrade or the speed slows down. For instance, if I do deadlifts above 90% of 1RM I'm not going to have bar speed. If I'm doing chin ups I can do 8 reps before failure. But, the speed slows down by the fifth rep. If I never did those extra reps would I still get stronger? I know its not that straight forward. I'm not thinking specifically of going to muscle failure...though obviously that is whats beginning to happen when the speed decreases.
I guess I'm confused about how one would use the idea of stopping your sets short. What does this facilitate? It can't just be variety for the sake of variety. It must be better for either strenght, power or hypertrophy. I can see how it could be beneficial for power, but it seems that the loads aren't power loads. Yet, it seems difficult to use near maximal loads for this type of training. So, I'm left to assume that its for hypertrophy?
I'm assuming that this type of protocol will likely have more sets? So, instead of 4x8 with an 8RM, you'll be doing 6x5 with an 8RM?