{"id":4781,"date":"2019-11-21T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musclemagfitness.com\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2019-11-21T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:08:17","slug":"perform-sets-to-volitional-fatigue-failure-for-big-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fghdesign.com\/mmf\/perform-sets-to-volitional-fatigue-failure-for-big-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Perform Sets To Volitional Fatigue For Huge Gains and Quick Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For muscle growth, you must train to volitional fatigue frequently, but not all the time. You may be stuck not getting stronger. Lifting to failure could be your key to success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Volitional Fatigue?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Volitional means you did it on purpose or through the act of will, i.e., \u201cvolition.\u201d You will recognize muscle fatigue by lifting to failure. Simply, you will know that your muscles have fatigued when you can no longer lift anymore. Lifting to volitional fatigue is lifting to failure, where you can\u2019t lift another rep of that weight without cheating. Although, there are many ways to lift to failure if you are looking for more check out our Advanced Lifting Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Does Muscle Growth Occur?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Muscle growth doesn\u2019t occur in the gym, but what you do in the gym is the first step to getting stronger. During resistance training, you damage your muscle fibers and burn adenosine triphosphate (ATP). After your muscle has used up all the ATP stores, it can make more energy through three systems: ATP PCR, Glycolysis, Oxidative. To gain muscle strength, you need to train your Type II muscle fibers. For more information on the types of muscle fiber, read this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After exercise, your body must repair the damage created in your muscles during the resistance training. Subsequently, your body builds muscle when it repairs the muscle fibers. Specifically, your body replaces damaged muscle fibers by fusing more muscle fibers at a cellular level. Although, you must have enough of the fundamental building blocks for new muscle tissue. For example, you can\u2019t build a house without raw materials. Similarly, you can\u2019t build muscle without protein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be wondering why lifting to failure, or volitional fatigue is so important then. Admittedly when you lift, you are tearing your muscle fibers. However, when you lift to failure, you are recruiting more and more muscle fibers until you have no more stored energy left. For that reason, you have now created the maximum amount of damage to all the muscle fibers that you targeted. On the contrary, if you didn\u2019t lift to volitional fatigue, you have muscle fibers that were never fully utilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Wilson, Ph.D., CSCS Discusses the 6 Fundamentals of Muscle Growth<\/h3>\n\n\n
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