Resistance training should familiarize individuals with the sensation of reaching muscular failure and being one repetition away from failure.

“Now, it is clear, however that one needs to perform those sets to failure where you can't perform another repetition in good form again or near to failure.”

“The other 20% can be of the higher intensity to failure type training.”

“approximately 80% of the resistance training you do should be resistance training that doesn't go to what they call failure, where you can't actually move the resistance anymore.”

“And then the other two workouts would involve resistance training, again, with this 80/20 split, where 80% of the work is not to failure and 20% is.”

“resistance training done for anywhere from six to 10 sets per muscle group either close to or to failure”

“10% of the sets of a given workout or 10% of workouts overall should be of the high-intensity sort where one is actually working to muscular failure.”

“10% of the sets of a given workout or 10% of workouts overall should be of the high-intensity sort where one is actually working to muscular failure. The point being that most of your training, most of your sets should be not to failure.”

“Approximately 80% of the resistance training you do should be resistance training that doesn't go to what they call failure, where you can't actually move the resistance anymore.”

“everybody needs to know what it feels like to go to failure and everybody therefore needs to get familiar with what does it feel like when I was one rep before that”