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#45 - How Important Is Failure & How Much Does Training Hard Matter? ft. Greg Nuckols

The Jeff Nippard Podcast

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Do You Think You Should Be Closer to Failure When Training for Strength?

If you never go close to failure and training, good luck with your third attempts on me. If someone does generally have that motor skill, though, I think they're fine. I don't think they have to go to failure that often. And I think if they did, Boris Shaco wouldn't be a successful coach and he is. So like, yeah, as long as you still go close enough to failure, often enough that you don't lose that motor skill,. You can do the vast, vast majority of your training pretty submaximal for strength work and still be in a pretty good spot.

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