 First question is from C. Pickens seven does lifting the failure bodybuilding style tax the CNS like lifting heavy powerlifting type maxing the reason why you have to you have to put in what they wrote there because it makes a difference right and Correct me if I'm wrong. I think that this person is Alluding to like a bodybuilder style workouts tend to be Isolation exercises primarily they don't do a lot of compound lifting where the opposite is true with power lifting power lifting Is all compound lifting right that's a primarily yeah So you know when you train if you work out with any type of intensity or volume There's always gonna be a you're always gonna challenge the central nervous system a little bit And if you over challenge the CNS it needs to take time to recover And this can be a problem when you're trying to build muscle or improve or whatever your physique Now the main the first part about lifting to failure now Here's a deal with lifting the failure, you know when I was a kid It was told to me or at least I read in every bodybuilding magazine the lifting to failure was super important because you need to work out intensely in order to send the muscle building signal and Because failure because there was nothing beyond failure except you could do like force reps and stuff But other than that if you went to failure, you know, you went past the point of sending that signal and in theory it sounded Good now. Here's the deal one of the most mind-blowing changes I ever made to my training was In my 20s in my late 20s where I Stopped training to failure and I did this because I started to look at strength athletes programming Power lifters Olympic lifters rarely ever lift to failure. They just don't do it very often oftentimes going to failure is on the day of the competition And I thought God, I wonder if that will benefit me I stopped lifting to failure started training to intensely But I would stop about two to three reps before I thought I would fail and now my body just Responded the studies now support this studies now show that intensity That going to failure is too much intensity. It's too much intensity for most people Occasionally going to failures. Okay, so you know where it's at but as a tool to get your body to improve It's too much. It's too much. It'll slow down your progress Yeah, I was kind of reading this question a little bit differently like so in terms of like Hypertrophy and and trying to max out and and going to the point of like pure fatigue like so if I'm getting that sort of Where where my muscles feel like super tight and I can't even perform the rep anymore and then I'm I'm tired I'm fatigued versus Maxing out completely and going to failure, you know doing a heavy compound lift like a deadlift or you know A bench press or something like there's a little bit more of a dire consequence to one That's exactly how I read this. I read this as somebody is comparing bodybuilding type training Let's let and of course we're over generalizing this but that is more like going to failure on leg press and Leg extensions. Yeah, okay Versus the the guy or girl who goes to failure on a squat or a deadlift which one's more taxing for the CNS Obviously, well, it's obvious to us But I think that's why that this person's asking this question because there's a lot of bodybuilders There's a lot of bodybuilders that that have incredible, you know Prophesies that train to failure all the time, but they never do these compound lifts And this is part of why they get away with that they get away with that because it isn't as taxing on the body as Going to failure on a deadlift or on a squat You can go to failure on a leg press and Recover a lot quicker than you could doing that from a squat True, which is also true why you don't get as much bang for your buck though. Yeah, that's true There's not all exercises all you know exercise are different They're not all equal and some give you better results than others and some tax your body more than others and isolation movements Tend to tax your body a lot less than compound movement. So going to failure and isolate on a bicep curl is Not is bad I would say is going to you know failure on it on like a pull-up which both hits the biceps pretty well But one is a compound exercise. This is also how I would modify my training sometimes when let's say, you know Because we we tend to you know Push people in the direction of more of the bang for your best bang for your buck exercises like the compound lifts So of course my most of my programming is built around that but every once in a while I get I overextend and I train really hard Let's say and I really get after squats and then I'm my hips are sore But then here I am back two days later and I'm supposed to do you know front squats or something else This is sometimes where I go. Oh, I'm gonna leg press today or oh, I'm gonna do some machine It's less of a challenge. Exactly. So I mean so I think the question is a good question if I'm if I'm Receiving it correctly that yeah, they are different. Yeah, and you know back to what I was saying originally I just think this is an important message. No, you're right. You're right for if you're listening or watching this Don't if you go to failure in your workout stop doing that and watch what happens You'll actually progress. Well, we make a massive we've talked many times before about paradigm shattering moments in our career This was one of them for me like you I went through a phase of leaving two in the tank I don't remember who I heard that from first or what got me to do that But for a extended period of time, I said, okay, I for so many years I was the kid who wanted a spotter Everything was the failure force reps because I thought that's what I need to grow Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and put this into practice and see if I go the complete opposite What kind of and I saw huge benefits from it. Yeah strength gains muscle gains And I had already been lifting for really on time So it blew my mind that that training that way and don't forget to when you get to those levels of pushing to Failure that's where the the risk also increases So if I'm not gonna get that much more gains from it or not or not even as much gains from it And then also increase the risk. Why would you almost ever do it? It should be something that you rarely right and then also low rep sets even if they're intense tend to cause less Stress on the body than higher rep sets, you know, it's within reason So if I do a set of you know squats and I'm maxing out at two reps and even if I'm going to failure for two reps It's actually not gonna tax my body is if I was doing the same thing with 15 reps and going to failure on 15 reps So you also have to calculate all the volume and volume includes the total amount of reps That you're doing in your workout. So it's really important to understand that the right dose is best That's what's gonna get you there the fastest more or less than that will get you there slower And if you're a fitness fanatic Realize that your tendency is to try to do more so always in my opinion air on the side of less and you'll probably do better