arthuroarti
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Is failure necessary for Hypertrophy? There were studies that showed that stopping shy of failure is better. What do you think?
Failure is not necessary but not a bad thing either.
I think that avoiding failure all the time can lead to soft training and using the avoidance of failure as an excuse to not push yourself very hard.
I always saw going to failure as meaning continuing to lift as much as you can while maintaining decent form.
If you do a bit more reading, you'll see that Fadi suggests stopping 1 rep short of failure.
Just saidjust sayin.