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Hey /fit/. Someone recommended a book on here some time ago - Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsouline. In the book, it puts forward the idea that repeating an exercise is more beneficial than training to failure, and that it's possible to accomplish much greater strength gains by training daily but not to failure than it is doing a training session as we usually know it.

Can anyone vouch for the credibility of this? Or anything in the book, for that matter - some of the ideas seem pretty good and certainly where he mentions increasing the strength of a muscle without much of an increase in size as I'm more interested in strength than looking good.

Tl;dr is the book content a reality? Also, does anyone have a copy of the other book, Power to the People? I only found Naked Warrior, and it shows up straight away in a torrent search if any other anons are curious.
>> Fenrir !!b3ak3wdWNXq
Yes, it all works. It is the same general principle powerlifters use to train for their events. You're not making the muscle stronger but rather training your central nervous system to recruit more of the muscle to provide greater tension. This is how I train for pullups and I have yet to plateau on my increases. I posted this for the progression thread but it pretty much gives an idea of how it works: http://cbass.com/Synaptic.htm
>> laughing man !EyknVYKAcc
http://lol.7chan.org/fit/res/27562.html
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>> Guil
>>31147
Yeah, for pullups. Same weight every time. This is endurance, not strength.

Most people want to see visible gains on their muscles as fast as possible, and test themselves on their maxes on some main excercises (bench, squatz) and training to failure has seemed more beneficial for direct strength gains rather than endurance.

You'll want to do a bit of both though, obviously. Yin and Yang and all that. So try something like a month of "endurance" and a month of "strength"