When lifting weights, do you wonder how pushing yourself to the point of failure — where you can’t do another rep — impacts your results? New research finds that if you’re aiming for muscle growth, training closer to failure might be more effective. It doesn’t matter if you adjust training volume by changing sets or reps; the relationship between how close you train to failure and muscle growth remains the same. For strength, how close you push to failure doesn’t seem to matter as much.
