Plan To Fail

You may be able to maximise your strength by doing as little as one set to failure of a lift once a week, says a study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sport & Exercise. Researchers put 46 subjects on multiple training regimens, including the standard three sets of 10, three times a week, for leg curls and extensions for six weeks and found that those on the onetime-a-week-to-failure protocol gained significantly more strength compared with those on the other programmes.

- Spenser Mestel

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