Building muscle is imperative for burning fat off of your body, raising your metabolism, and transforming the very look of your body. There are many different ways and speeds at which you can build muscle, all of them should be used and used at correct times.

When you are getting started, there will probably be a rush to get some results and you will be tempted to use some advanced weight training techniques. Avoiding these techniques will actually speed up your results and allow you to use more advanced techniques sooner.

One of these techniques that is well known to build muscle is reaching either true muscular failure or momentary muscular failure. Although this does have some controversy behind it, it can be successfully used to give your muscles a boost to new growth.

What is Muscular Failure?

Muscular failure is really broken down into two forms, true muscular failure and momentary muscular failure. True muscular failure is near impossible to reach. It is the point at which you cannot lift the weight at all… you have literally given everything you can.

This is impossible to reach because our minds will make us quite long before we actually reach true failure. Not to mention you need a serious partner to help protect you from injury if you are to try this.

So ruling out true muscular failure leaves momentary muscular failure. This is the point in which you cannot get a full rep completed in good form. The options once your reach this point becomes endless. You will learn shortly how to use this momentary muscular failure to get an intense workout that stimulates some great muscle growth.

Is Muscular Failure Good For Your Body?

I think that when properly used, doing a routine that lasts no longer than 1 month can really help to explode your results. I know that I did a muscular failure routine for one month and saw some size gain in my muscles, but better than that… I saw more definition in my body.

Muscular failure can be very bad for your body if you do not provide yourself with plenty of rest and plenty for nutrition. Since the intensity level of a routine that pushes your muscles to muscular failure is so great, the probability of hitting overtraining raises.

Overtraining is detrimental to the results you are trying to hit, and even more to your overall health. It can cause muscle atrophy, depression, loss of appetite, and many more serious problems.

However, if you use muscular failure routines properly you can really kick your body into high gear. They are great for overcoming…

How do I use muscular failure to work for me?

The first distinction that you need to realize is that you are going to go for momentary muscular failure. Even if you think you have the mindset to reach true failure, I suggest you cancel that attempt.

Arthur Jones, famous bodybuilder trainer, would rest his guys for over a week when they would truly perform failure training. The strain placed on the muscles is so great and the occurrence of overtraining to high that you need to rest that much.

There are a few ways you can train to get the affects of total failure.

1. Drop Sets: these are a special way of mimicking muscular failure. Here's how you do them. Let's say you are doing squats. You start off by loading the bar up with 150 pounds. You complete reps until you can no longer complete a full rep in perfect form.

   You then drop the weight down to 140 pounds and do this again. Then you will probably do it one more time making sure to truly push it hard.

2. Here is a Dan Boyle original. It takes some pushing, but I find that it works really well. Let's stick with the squat… Try to load the exercise with enough weight to do a 10 -- 12 RM and do your best to beat that. When you can no longer do one full rep, do half reps until you can't even get that weight up.

   Then rest for 20 seconds and go pack and try again to do as many as possible without dropping weight. You will not be able to do very many and your muscles will burn like crazy, but it is a great variation.

It is very important to not continue a high intensity muscular failure workout month after month. I suggest that you do one maybe ever 3 months. Regardless of what a lot of skeptics say, muscular failure workouts have their place and purpose. To boost muscle growth, boost fat burning, and boost confidence… consider the working out to momentary muscular failure.

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