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Muscle Failure

Muscle failure is a milestone that you want to achieve in your exercises, it refers to the point where you cannot perform another repetition of the exercise, where a muscle can no longer contract.

If you are going gym or doing regular exercises, you should know how your body adapts to the routine, eg: if you walk 1 mile for 7 days, you feel it’s too much when you start especially the first 2 days, but then your body adapts the routine and you will not feel the same way after a week. This is a simple example of how our body adapts to physical activity.

when it comes to muscle failure if you do the exercise example: Bench press and you perform 3 sets of 12reps with the same weight the intensity of hitting muscle failure is low, what if you perform a superset by adding one dumbbell press with it, the intensity of hitting muscle failure would be high.

Why it’s important to hit Muscle Failure:

No matter what your goal is, you want to gain or loss, if you want cut and jacked physic, Muscles has an important role in it, muscle failure is a point you want to achieve in your workout that’s how a personal trainer design your workout, that every time your body will be in the process of adapting changes and it will achieve the goal you set.

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Bodybuilding is about knowing your body limits, exploring your failures, and overcoming your weaknesses.  You will get to know about your body when you work out.

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