Have you ever heard of the total failure?

This is a method for super heroes. Learn about the total failure and start practicing it today.

It is true that bodybuilding workouts can be extremely demanding and not everyone has the physical ability or motivation to take the body to the limit. One of the concepts that are always omnipresent in the universe of bodybuilders is the practice until muscular total failure.

This is one of the most important notions for anyone wanting to get the muscle hypertrophy as it considered that only reaching muscle failure in the exercises performed it is possible to get a notorious stimulus to promote substantial growth of muscle fibers.

As a general rule, this failure applies to concentric phase of the movement, in which the joints “fold”, as they hold in greater weight load.

Shock method

The method of complete failure goes far beyond and that’s why only advanced-level practitioners with a few years of training must adopt it.

Total failure aims to three objectives: concentric failure, the eccentric failure and even static failure. Impossible to go harder.

Most practitioners end their training when they reach the concentric failure and muscle does not allow them to carry out more repetitions. Well if you choose to take this technique until the end, you can’t stop when you get to this point and will have to continue, no matter what it costs, until you can´t even lower the load, that is, until the eccentric motion failure. When you have the feeling that the weight will slide down directly to the ground, you have reached this second point.

And when you get to it… do not give up. Go on. This time to the static failure.

Partner

To achieve this type of workout you will need a partner. First, to help you finish the concentric portion of the movement, then to help you also in eccentric and part and finally to help you put the weight in a sustainable position during the static phase of the movement.

When you can’t even hold this position you will have reached the total failure and had perhaps the most intense of all training.