Is Your Workout Missing These 8 Important Things?

Failure

Failure in the context of a workout is not defined as trying an exercise and immediately failing; it is the practice of doing an exercise untilfailure. The body does not want to gain muscle naturally; therefore, working to failure is a good way to grow muscle mass and develop both mental and physical strength. Working out a muscle until failure is a sure way to know how much and for how long someone can lift a certain weight properly. This can translate into the formation of goals for an individual within a workout. When lifting weights until failure, it is better to use a lighter weight at higher reps with correct form rather than to use weights so heavy that only a few reps can be completed correctly. As Bram Stoker once said, "we learn from failure, not from success."