Danny Kennedy

So you've got to be a bit selective with what you do go to failure on.

I usually kind of am more inclined to get like for either myself or for clients or anyone to really only go to failure definitely only on the last set of an exercise but realistically even just more so towards the back end of a workout.

Because you're most likely going to be failing then on more isolation exercises that are not very dangerous at all.

Yeah.

And if we come back to that example before, if I'm failing even on the last set of my first exercise,

The rest of that session is kind of compromised now.

Like if I'm focusing on trying to progress and overload my training but I fail on the first exercise, then it's really difficult to then overload the rest of them.

So I probably would have been better off just staying just shy of failure and then being able to do that consistently throughout the workout itself.

So...

I don't know if I've really provided a great answer there, but I would say it can definitely be dangerous on certain movements.

If you are going to fail in your training, I would highly recommend it only ever being on the last working set.

And even more so like ideally with isolation exercises where you're really only using like a single muscle group.

Yeah.

towards the very back end of your workout so that, you know, you might feel good.

It's a good little mental and physical challenge as well.

And that's, you know, whenever I do them, that's usually why just because it's a bit of a burnout set at the end.

But you don't have to train to failure in order to see results.

And so I would say for someone early in their stage of training, it's not beneficial really at all to be training to failure very often because, you know, your focus should more so be on just actually learning the skill.

Your form.

Yeah, form.