The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
there's quite a bit of literature out there to show that you get a you get basically the same hypertrophy training close to failure that you do going to Absolute failure and the it's not necessarily that failure is bad it's just the amount of recovery deficit it creates the amount of Taxation it creates uh is disproportionate to the stimulus
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it's just the amount of recovery deficit it creates the amount of Taxation it creates uh is disproportionate to the stimulus
we know you don't have to train to failure to grow muscle in fact it may actually be a little bit counterproductive just in terms of the fatigue that it causes relative to the stimulus we know that you know for most movements you get most of the hypertrophy and strength benefits going within a few reps of failure so rpe like seven eight