Re: Re: Minimizing Fatigue

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Krieger wrote:

>The article Dr. Fincher cites is simply a review article and not a study.

>Basically, he is saying that termination of an exercise before concentric

>muscular failure may not elicit maximum benefit " because Dr. Fleck and Dr.

>Schutt said so. " This is hardly a scientific basis for training to

>failure.

I didn't read the article Dr. Fleck's review article, nor was I suggesting

that that article that was cited was scientific basis. My original

question...which apparently I didn't make clear... What do you think about

training to failure for maximum benefit?

The original article that I was looking at can be found at www.biomech.com

in the archives under " Less is more in resistance training. "

Dr. Fincher is suggesting, in his study, that less really is more. He

concluded from the data that he gathered that doing single set resistance

training to failure would most likely be more beneficial than multi-set

resistance training in that there would be similar or better results without

overtraining an athlete. So, under that, I am asking what opinions might be

as to his findings and personally what each of you have experienced.

To Dan who wrote:

>First off, let me clarify that I am not Dan Wagman, as you had >indicated,

>but Dan .

I apologize. I am not quite sure how I had your names mixed up. Again, I

am somewhat new...this will show you how new...I don't know who Pavel is.

Nor was I insinuating that you were arguing " that stopping short of failure,

is the most effective means of

resistance training. " I appreciate you explaining that you were making a

clarification.

You also said:

" If a trainee were to attempt to take each of those sets

to failure, he/she would be overtrained before the end of the first day. "

Again, Dr. Fincher suggested in his article that you would not need to train

with so many sets...you would in fact only do one set to failure. To

reiterate, he felt that doing single set resistance training to failure

would most likely be more beneficial than multi-set resistance training in

that there would be similar or better results without overtraining an

athlete. Does this sound right? I don't know...his data seem to suggest

such.

Viet, SAT

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