To Burn or Not to Burn, That is the Question?

[Fat Guy]

I did some research on this, but it did not answer my question. How effective is the burnout for strength training?

What I mean by burnout is after doing my working sets of an exercise I do one last set with lighter weight until failure.

My training consists of only strength training type exercises and my goal is to only get stronger. I only do compound movements (squat, deads, bench, ect) and my sets are many with high volume weight and low repetition (usually %s of my PR).

So for all you strength trainers, Powerlifters, Olympic Style Lifter, and all knowledgeable minds… Does the burnout increase strength or not?

[Sasso09]

Well i train with Doc.sust.. some days he'll have me do a drop set, other days he won't. Basically he asks me how i feel, so i'm sure it all matters by how you feel. I'm sure he'll respond when he sees this.

[Fallen_Angel]

Yes and no. For powerlifting, you don't want to tear a muscle down like that. If you are just starting to lift, you will gain a good bit of strength from it. Burn outs provide a nice shock to the system, but at the price of frying your cns. This makes them virtually useless to the strength athlete with the exception of a few cases. I like them in the off season, just after a couple of weeks of rest after a big competition. They develop more endurance than anything, and if the nutrition is right, you may be able to throw on a bit of size by implementing them every couple of weeks. There are certainly many better philosophical approaches you can take to get stronger.
Perhaps just as taxing on the cns are plyometrics, for example.