Andrew Huberman· PhD
I think the key move was to not take sets to failure, to add some volume, and still only training each major muscle once per week.
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I think the key move was to not take sets to failure, to add some volume, and still only training each major muscle once per week.
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So, I'm able to now train muscle groups that I used to only be able to recover if I train them once or twice a week. I can train them like three or four days a week, and I'm making much more progress overall, but there's no single set where I'm like grinding out that last final rep.
My understanding and my experience is that if you do a proper warm-up and then you train close to failure or to failure for one or two sets, maybe a third set that it takes at least three or four days for that muscle to recover.