Dean Somerset put out a musing today on his blog about training to failure and it has me thinking about its applications in circus. The thing about strength training is that everything works to a degree. It might not be the most efficient use of your time but it usually does something.
"The balancing act of training is imparting enough stress to see positive adaptations, but not so much as to cause serious tissue damage or worsening performance." - Dean
So what do I mean by failure exactly? Dean made this handy little graph.