Understanding Muscle Failure
17-Aug-06
Are you wasting your time lifting weights that don’t challenge your muscles?
This month we are talking about using momentary muscle failure to increase your productivity during exercise. We see lots of people in the gym going through the motions of exercise and if they incorporated the concept of momentary muscle failure when choosing their resistance they would see vast improvements in their results.
Momentary muscle failure is the concept of stimulating the muscle system to the point where the muscles can no longer perform the intended movement. Have you ever lifted something so many times that you could no longer lift it? That is momentary muscle failure – that point at which you just have to stop and take a rest.