Like most getbiggers, I spend my Sat nights memorizing the weider principles.
Beyond Failure: 5 Weider Principles That Allow You To Train Past Failure & Accelerate Muscle Gains
“Failure is the true test of greatness.” – Herman Melville
To succeed in bodybuilding, you must learn how to fail.
This is not because most competitors lose, although they do. In a contest with 100 entrants, 99 will go home without the overall trophy. Still, nobody needs to practice for such placings. Nor is it because all humans, with the possible exception of Charlize Theron, will fall short of perfection. Try as we might, we can never ultimately build flawless physiques. This hard truth is part of the beauty of bodybuilding, but not the failure at issue here. The sort of bodybuilding failure you must learn is the one preordained every time you begin moving a weight, because that moment will always be followed by another when you stop moving it. All sets must end.
The key to training success is prolonging the inevitable failure of muscle or failure of will. This feature explains how to keep a set going even when your muscles and mind tell you to stop.
