Master trainer Elliott Hulse tackles the subject of training to failure. Should you push your limits or hold back? This video explains why you may want to push to failure.

Training to Failure Video by Elliott Hulse

You’re probably already familiar with the hardcore conditioning and shredding methods that really make you want to puke after every set. For this reason, let’s look at something not normally talked about in strength training.

Let me tell you about a big secret in strength training. This is what’s behind any success you can have. This subject is not normally concentrated on. Everything you need to know about the actual training, you’ll learn about over the next few weeks. Those are valuable, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Let’s tackle the subject of motivation, inspiration, and really getting what you set out to accomplish. Foremost to accomplishing your fitness, strength, speed, endurance, athleticism, sports and LIFE goals is this one often ignored matter. Do you have a pen and paper? You might want to write this down: Get yourself comfortable with being uncomfortable. Let me say that again. Get accustomed and used to being comfortable with being uncomfortable. This means being able to accomplish things that weren’t possible before when you operated within your comfort zone. Pain would now be a common sensation whenever you have your workout sessions. This involves doing the occasional workout to failure.

While overtraining could be a result of too much pushing yourself, you’ve got to find the right mix of discomfort and safety – more often than not, we err on the side of safety. Force yourself to touch on places where you don’t usually go. Even the usual way that everyone exercises is a testament to setting a limit to what one can crank out in an workout – how often have you heard: “I’m going to aim for 10 reps of this…” You just set a boundary or limit on what you allow yourself to accomplish! Drop it!Adopt a new way of doing things! Crank out as many reps as you can ‘til your muscles are tired, spent and well worked out.

Check youtube for a video about a guy named Ray Lewis, a football player. What he says in the video is that there’s only one thing he does when he works out – not reps, sets, seconds or minutes. HE DOES THE EXERCISE TO FAILURE. He works so hard that getting out of bed in the morning is almost impossible on some mornings. This is what’s needed as an attitude towards training, goals, and anything including your work or business, your family, your relationships, etc.

If you only do normal actions, like what we’re normally used to, then we only get normal results – like what we normally get! If you’re up to big, extraordinary things in your life, a big ripped body, a big house, big bank account, big anything – then you need to do extraordinarily big things as well. Having yourself be comfortable with feeling uncomfortable with things is the only way you’re going to achieve this. So training to failure is the way to go!