The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
You can actually reach failure maybe on a few of the sets, maybe the end. And probably best to choose that with the exercises that are safer, not that any exercise is particularly unsafe if you do it appropriately. But you may not want to go to true failure on every set for the more complex, larger, riskier exercises. So hedge pretty close to failure, but not all the way.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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People like training, serious lifters like training close to failure.
if you want to do not a ton of volume for any one muscle if you work really hard and bring yourself very close to failure you can already do super super well just with that alone