>>76220335
>Going to failure just feels better to me and delivers better results
that's fine, I'm not even against going to failure
it's just not something magical
>>76220392
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>>76220414
>>76220419
all sorts of lifters tear their tendons or hurt their ligaments by doing high volumes away from failure
>>76221762
sounds similar to a widowmaker
>>76224027
>Per the hennemans size principle, going to failure is required to stimulate every fiber in the muscle
HSP indicates that motor units are recruited per size order from the smallest to the biggest depending on the strength of the electrical signal sent by the motor cortex and that there is a certain threshold needed for the electrical signal to lead to the recruitment of each motor unit.
the signal is throttled by all sorts of fatigue like supra spinal CNS fatigue and spinal CNS fatigue and I'm guessing some more regional type of fatigue that is specific to a muscle's if excess contraction time is experienced leading to all sorts of biochemical disruptions that affect mechanical transduction from electrical signal to mechanical action

you don't need to reach "failure" for a muscle to be highly active, and it is also extremely difficult to activate "every fiber" in a particular muscle, if not impossible, due to protective mechanisms that limit our ability to voluntarily contract the highest threshold muscle fibers in order to avoid excess muscle damage

the only thing that's needed to activate as many muscle fibers as you possibly can is an electrical signal strong enough to reach the highest threshold motor unit threshold needed, you don't need to reach failure on anything

but that's just activation, you also need forces to be produced by muscle fibers for them to grow and you get that with slow contraction velocity according to the forcexvelocity relationship
for example just throwing a ball explosively or jumping or sprinting is not gonna make muscle fibers that are activated grow to any meaningful extent

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