Yes that’s true that beginning almost any form of exercise will deliver most of the benefits compared to what an optimal rountine would! But your post is all about trying to be as time efficient as possible (e.g you also discussed the potential to use drop sets to go even beyond failure!).
For vast majority of people reading this post—if their goal is to get the greatest possible benefit from resistance training in shortest amount of time—the biggest mistake they’re making right now is not having their sets be difficult enough. You’re right that you don’t need to go to failure to get most of the benefits, but if time efficiency is the goal, spending that extra 15 seconds to add those two final pre-failure reps to a set is the first thing I’d reccomend.
Thanks for the details! One of the findings of exercise studies is that you still get a lot of benefits not going to failure.
Yes that’s true that beginning almost any form of exercise will deliver most of the benefits compared to what an optimal rountine would! But your post is all about trying to be as time efficient as possible (e.g you also discussed the potential to use drop sets to go even beyond failure!).
For vast majority of people reading this post—if their goal is to get the greatest possible benefit from resistance training in shortest amount of time—the biggest mistake they’re making right now is not having their sets be difficult enough. You’re right that you don’t need to go to failure to get most of the benefits, but if time efficiency is the goal, spending that extra 15 seconds to add those two final pre-failure reps to a set is the first thing I’d reccomend.
Reasonable