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Pete Sisko, training to failure not necessary. Including why the last rep is not nec the most productive
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I love it. Even Pete Sisko, whose early books were largely a thinly disguised attempt to combine concepts of HIT, partial reps, and science is side-stepping. And this is a guy who stated that the only way muscles could grow was to "overload the CNS"
He actually counceled that as your ability to recover to higher and higher workload diminishes you may have to take up to three weeks between workouts. Not even between bodyparts, between workouts!
Course he's still a dumbass. The failure article is from 2001; this from 2002:
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Originally Posted by Sisco
Amazing Progress by "Doing Nothing"
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Originally Posted by Sisco
Once you understand how to adjust your personal training frequency, your results will soar. Here's an example of what happened for a very tough-minded client of mine named Stanley.
After we discussed his training and lack of progress - particularly in the barbell shrug exercise - I told Stanley to take three weeks off of all training. He said there was no way he could stay out of the gym that long. Actually, this is a common problem with serious bodybuilders. Psychologically, when you want to make progress, it is very difficult to do what seems like "nothing." Not training feels like throwing in the towel or admitting defeat in some way. But the truth is your body needs time to recover. Time off is not wasted time; it's time that is critical to the growth process. It took a lot of talk to convince Stanley but, to his credit, he took three weeks off of all training.
Two months later he called me back with results that will shock you. His strength increased in every area of his body and his shrug power had skyrocketed. His first workout after the layoff was a personal best. Now he's training once every nine days. That's 18 days between workouts for the same bodyparts, because he uses an upper/lower body split. Before this correction in his training frequency, Stanley was training four times in just nine days. Look at the numbers that he sent me.
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Will the madness never end?