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Anonymous
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You can tell by feel. After you've been working out regularly for a long time (>year), you can tell when you've exhausted your muscles and further repetitions will be fruitless.
This might help: how to tell if you've reached failure using negative repetitions.
A way you can tell with negatives is holding the weight or bar at full muscular contraction. Can you hold it in place? You haven't reached failure yet. OK, next step. Slowly lower or allow the bar/weight to raise/lower (depending on the exercise obviously). Can you control the movement, i.e., stop the movement at any time during the negative? If so, you still haven't reached failure.
When you can no longer stop your movement, you've reached your muscular endurance. Do one or two more reps for good measure.
This may not work for everyone since no two bodies are the same, but give it a try.
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