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1000% agreeNow a days I go to FORM FAILURE, the older I get the easier I get injured so I go until my form starts getting fucked then I'm done. I watch most people go to failure and they are incorporating way more than the target muscle to push themselves further to get to that failing point.
To me, this is the clearest on back movements. You see guys dp a low row, really contracting a lower lat and as they fatigue it turns into “whatever muscles can row this” row, swinging everything into it.
I go until my form sucks and then, just to make sure I’m pushin it, hit partials.
I was justt havin this convo with another SHW BBer at the gym. Every month or so, I have a couple movement that I need to reset the form on. I have pushed too hard and too heavy on progressive overload and because of that, form sucks and I’m not progressing like I should. So i ego check myself and pull back. Lower the weight, control the movement. Honestly, that is the exact reason why i sucked at DC when i was younger. I would continually progress, but my form would go to shit and next thing ya know i'm up 30lbs on a lift but it has stalled and i'm using 90% momentum. JP has always been a big, "stop, reset form, then keep moving" kind of guy and it took me years to understand and apply that to my own training