Is it True?

[Lost]

I read this from the teenbodybuilding forum off of bodybuilding.com site


"Also, don't go thinking that to make your muscles get bigger, you need to train to failure and go balls to the wall every workout. Stay about 1-2 reps shy of failure, and you won't overtrain."


Is that sentence/paragraph true?


Ive always gone to failure and im now wonderin if that was my problem why i neer grew in the past lol(when i used to bodybuild)

 

[Nocturnal]

yes.

1) it's better to undertrain than overtrain
2) you don't need to feel sore to make gains, if you train to failure you will most likely feel sore
3) if you're doing a correct workout you should not go into the gym with sore muscles that are supposed to be worked out again

 

[Alpine]

There is some truth in this. If you can continually gain just shy of failure then wonderful. It also depends on where you are in a cycle and how new you are to WT.

Generally though you will get to a point where failure is the way you adapt to get bigger and stronger.

This is the point in your training were the poundages have never been before, keep on adding a bit of weight, add less and less each week and give yourself more rest. This will help extend the cycle.