Why you MUST fail to grow

Most workouts last longer than a Marvel blockbuster.

You perform 5x5, rest three minutes between sets, check your phone, flex in the mirror, check out the hot chick doing hip thrusts, then do a trillion sets of curls.

Bloody hell.

You’re spending too long at the gym.

Life is too short to waste that kind of time.

You don’t need time in the gym to build muscle and transform your physique; you need intensity.

Enter HIT.

HIT stands for High Intensity Training. HIT is fantastic because it’s simple and brutally effective.

It isn’t new, but because people have been so brainwashed by things like Men’s Health and Muscle & Fitness, few know about it.

Fewer still know how to train it properly.

The idea of HIT training is that you take every set to positive muscle failure.

Actual failure.

Where you literally cannot perform another repetition without perfect form.

So let’s say you pick a pair of 30 lbs dumbbells and do a set of bicep curls until you literally cannot do another rep. Congratulations, you’ve now gone to failure.

But most people’s minds give up long before their body does.

Learning how to exercise control of both your mind and body to achieve maximum output and truly go to failure takes time and practice.

Once you truly understand the HIT style of training, you’ll never want to go back to the mediocre, marathon workouts 99% of people do.

With this style of training you are blasting the muscle to exhaustion, which forces them to grow back bigger and stronger.

Perfect for parents

Once I had kids, I was starting to think getting a decent workout was impossible.

10-12 hours at work, coming home to look after the kids and spend time with my wife. All the professional development and extra work doctors have to do. Never mind sleep.

I had to find a way.

After some research, I started with Reverse Pyramid Training.

Although this was effective and did save time, I thought I could do better.

With a little practice I was able to hit true failure on my first set with good form (after a good warm up set), leaving nothing in the tank for another proper set after a 60 second rest. 

Then hit another exercise for the same muscle group, and reach failure there too.

With proper planning, 2-3 exercises can be performed like this for one muscle group and be completed in no longer than 20-25 minutes.

You see, working out is not proportional to how long you spend in the gym, but how effective your training is.

Training for positive muscle failure teaches you the training intensity required to get real results, which greatly cuts down your workout time.

In truth, one to two sets to failure are all you need to see dramatic changes in strength and body composition – provided you're doing everything else right outside the gym, of course.

Forget about workout duration, it’s all about workout intensity.

So, if you're a busy, high-performer whose time is limited, training to failure is all you need,

Brief and intense always beats long, lackluster training. Your results from exercise come from how effective it is, not from how long you spend in the gym.

Action steps

Your body will only change when you force it to adapt. I want you to get an idea of the kind of intensity it takes to really push your mind and body beyond its current limits.

Watch former champion bodybuilder Mike Mentzer take someone through an intense HIT workout.

Please don’t think that you have to be a bodybuilder to perform this style of training. You are simply taking valuable concepts and applying them to your own life.

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