P&P #13. Training to Failure and Training to the Point of Fatigue Are Often Confused, Suggesting that Endurance May Be More Fundamental than Strength.
Failure refers to the inability to complete a given task, a definition which applies equally well to fatigue. One might state that one may exhibit failure in not completing a 1RM, which refelects simply a lack of strength. Similarly, one might state that one fails with a light weight by doing 16 reps 'to failure', in which case most folk would deduce that the latter failure was a result of fatigue and lack of endurance.
But, can one distinguish so casually between failure with a 1RM and failure with a high repetition small load. We recognise STATIC (ISOMETRIC) muscle endurance and DYNAMIC muscle endurance, so are we not inappropriately trying to separate failure from fatigue and strength from endurance? We can fatigue with a 1RM or with a 10RM, and an apparent lack of strength with heavy loads is really a lack of isometric endurance. Does then the physiology of fatigue have more to do with strength production than we currently believe? Discuss all points raised in this commentary.
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