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    assistance work to failure?

    Im doing westside and in all articles by tate or louie it says to stop the assistance work 1 or 2 reps short of failure. But I always go to failure in every exercise.

    Should I stopp going to failure? How do you guys do it?

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    It just depends, sometimes failure will come before I knew it would....but most of the time, i will stop before failure. Im not saying its easy, The set will still burn, and be pretty difficult, but not to failure...

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    I would say stop short..the way Dave described it to me was to kill yourself on the first two movements and then leave one or two reps in the tank.

    Erm

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    Ok Il try to do it that way for a while instead!

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    If you are going to failure on every set you are not performing a Westside Routine.. it's that simple.. Sometimes failure happens..lol.. but it shouldn't be something you train for every workout..
    Last edited by phreezer; 02-23-2004 at 06:26 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phreezer
    If you are going to failure on every set you are not performing a Westside Routine.. it's that simple.. Sometimes failure happens..lol.. but it shouldn't be something you train for every workout..
    Well spoken Bro

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