Alan Aragon
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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But okay, when people try to train to failure, and this has been tested out in the research literature, they usually –
automatically leave one to two reps in the tank, even three reps in the tank.
And even trained, even resistance trained subjects, when you tell them to train a failure or leave one rep in reserve, they'll routinely leave actually two to three reps in reserve.
So people underestimate their abilities to push.
They usually – it's almost an automatic margin there that the body sort of regulates and governs and sort of automatically prevents you from going.
So with that said, I think that most people –
can train to failure without worrying about whether they're violating the golden guidelines seen in the literature.
It's very common for the consensus in the exercise science community, even in the hypertrophy folks, to say, yeah, leave one to two reps in reserve.
I think that depends on the exercise.
So
You'd be kind of a fool to be doing lateral raises, to think that you can't do partials for lateral raises and still get some benefit out of it.
And you'd be kind of a fool to think, yeah, I'm going to do concentration curls here.
I'm going to leave one to two reps in reserve.
No, that's different.
On the other hand, deadlifting, benching, squatting, these sort of...
freeweight barbell, multi-joint types of movements, oh, they're more conducive to leaving one to two reps in the tank.
But for single joint isolation exercises and even machine exercises and lighter loads, where it's safe, take it to failure, man.
quite a big impact.
Yeah, it has an impact.
And obviously the environment is important.
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