How To Overload Muscles During A Workout
It’s fairly common knowledge that to make either gains in strength or muscle size, you need to consistently overload the muscles. But what is muscle overload and how do you achieve it during a workout?
Muscle overload is when the muscle ceases to work anymore, also known as failure. This will happen toward the end of a set and is indicated by an inability to lift the weight any longer.
To train to failure on every single set is hard work, it takes it out of you physically, and can after a time start to build up a mental block toward weight training – because you come to associate going to the gym with pain!
I don’t train to failure on every set of every workout, I tend to train to failure on occasion, usually opting to train in the 8-12 rep range. You can still achieve muscle overload by doing this, but you have to do more sets.
Rather than training three sets to failure on a particular workout, you may instead opt to train for six sets of 8-12 reps, perhaps hitting failure on the last few sets.
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