Succeeding to Fail!?

Ok so today we tried something a little different down the gym. After chatting through with my good friend JW (ex semi professional body builder) about my work out I wanted a way of getting a bit more out of it as I felt that my muscles were getting used to the work and not reaping the full benefits – so I decided to cut my sets from 6 to 4 (with a initial set of 20 reps as a warm up) and then ‘go to failure’ before pyramiding the weight up for the next set - I’d heard of the concept before but never really given it much thought.

So anyway… me and Gaz (my gym buddy) got ourselves down the gym with the aim of succeeding to fail! As with all our workouts we started with 15 minutes interval training on the treadmill and then 15 minutes interval training on the rower – get the blood pumping and the heart nice and warm. Then onto the main work out that consisted of:

Chest, Biceps and Triceps

• ·         Hammer curls
• ·         Zootman curls
• ·         Triceps cable/rope pull downs
• ·         Flat bench
• ·         Inclined bench
• ·         Decline bench
• ·         Cable crucifix
• ·         Triceps extension with a dumbbell

After that moved onto the mat and finished off with 15 minutes of core work (crunches, Russian twists, sit ups, obliques crunches, abdominal roll outs with a ball, leg raises and plank)

Going to failure is definitely the way forward. I felt like I got so much more out of the work out although after the work out my energy (and blood sugar) was very low and I had to reach for the JB (jelly babies!)

Time to continue to fail!?