To Train To Failure Or Not

[@jamieeverson9048]

I feel like we’re getting so much knowledge for free with every one of your videos. Thank you Bret!!!!!

[@lgagnon12]

What changed my hypertrophy is doing 3 sets of reps like this: negative 2 seconds, pause 1/2 second, essentric 2 seconds = constant tension! 😁

[@selmb2073]

When In doubt… ask Bret! You can’t go wrong with this guy! Love you Bret, you da best !😍

[@SaltiBebe]

You know, if there's a fitness youtuber I'd listen to and wholeheartedly trust, it's Bret. Thanks Bret. We appreciate you!!!

[@Lianabel2485]

I just signed up to Booty by Brett and I’m super excited ever since I discovered you I’ve been obsessed with your content I appreciate the fact you’re extremely passionate about what you do again thank you for your dedication

[@craighasson8613]

I'm 67, still lifting, and it seems that you just reviewed my weight training history. I couldn't wait until Jones published his next article in Iron Man. As a person always trying to gain weight (about 6'1'', 195 now), I, on several occasions when I was younger, worked up to 300 lbs - 20 rep squats. I built a step-like squat rack out of 2X4s, but always worried I'd pass out and fall backwards out of the rack. Normally when I made those lifts, I'd not squat for long periods - I think they were just too mentally daunting., and my bodyweight didn't change all that much. Good overall review.

[@magda386]

Love these longer, more in depth videos with quality information

[@chrishansen9379]

Bret - Could you do a video on glutes and back pain? Maybe how to identify if there’s a weak area or imbalance in the hip musculature that should be addressed for health/performance reasons? Thanks!

[@TheStyleAlert]

Great question as I experience lower back pain possibly due to an imbalance

[@bretcontreras1]

Good idea!

[@effiefr6182]

I have back pain also..I'd agree that I have a weak area or imbalance in hip. I'd love a video about this too!

[@sweetifer]

I'm benched from Stronglifting on account of my back. My trainer believes my form is good but the physio says no heavy lifting until further notice.😢

[@LenaWildChild]

20:00 Such a great atmosphere in the glute lab!

[@laurie896]

Thank you so much for the video, Bret. I love your passion and knowledge. I think its awesome how you speak positively about many different ways of getting results and never just say that there is just one way. Thank again.

[@VickyLashenko]

So grateful for this info! I took a training from MindValley and H.I.T was a part of their program - 12 reps to failure. I loved it because I was in and out of the gym in 30 min. (I don’t warm up) it’s definitely economical! Thank you for making this long form video!

[@Bodyknowledge77]

Jeepers Bret this got nostalgic for me! Thanks! I've been training consistently since 93' and was obsessed back in the day the Cyberpump site. I did various permutations of H.I.T training for many years (won bodybuilding shows/placed well doing it). Mentzer Heavy Duty style, Superslow, Darden etc. I enjoy training more now since roughly 90 odd% of the time I don't go to total failure and do more(but reasonable) volume.

[@bretcontreras1]

So glad someone can relate haha! 🙌🏽

[@wildthang9355]

Goodness me was this a great video!! Hearing your story and you describing everything and setting the scenes. Knowing that I’m getting 100% facts from someone so inspirational and reliable. My workout tomorrow will be different! 💪🏾❤

[@michaelsofine]

I love Bret because he takes a scientific approach not a fake fad approach to what he does

[@lisajudkins9859]

Lighter loads more reps or heavy loads Les reps also time under tension and iso holds and negatives are beneficial as well 🤗

[@BEARTHEWEIGHT920]

Loved this video! Been an athlete as a kid and teen. Started lifting after my first son was born about 18 years ago. Lifting is such a journey! I've gained so much knowledge throughout the years. Please continue making these videos!!!

[@alexandriadonaldson1839]

Thank you so much Bret , I follow all of your you tube videos and shorts. I started working out 5 months ago and I am currently doing booty by bret, your program ! I've seen amazing results so far just wanted to give all my thanks to you and I look up to all of your information!!!

[@JennSarracenia]

San Diego eh? *googles Glute Lab* Glute Lab is a 5 min drive from me. Guess I’ll be meeting you in person sometime soon!

[@stevegaspar]

Thanks for the great discussion. When I was doing lots of Oly lifting I never ever went failure. Strength training I would occasionally get their but not on purpose. However for hypertrophy specifically with bench (on a Smith machine) and leg extensions I have been purposely getting to failure. Now I am also focusing on slow eccentric and concentric movements (3s-4s with a 1s pause at top and bottom of movement) sp the weight moved is much less. And I only do this for my last set. I also need more recovery time b/w workouts. That said I do notice more hypertrophy gains do this.

[@bodybeyondfit]

Thanks I've been following you for years.I love it

[@giuliam2531]

Super reasonable approach 😊

[@itsbroiled]

Love the long content !

[@TheStyleAlert]

Lmao! The band work scenario 💀!!!

[@kacyandlaura]

Way over my head! Maybe one day I’ll revisit this.

[@adelaidereading]

Bringing in Feynman had me like 😍

[@JolljellyfishhAndsweetcandy]

I freaking love your vids. You’re the best!!

[@NastasiaM53]

It was the bench press demonstration for me 😋 Top video. Thanks for sharing 🙌🏼👍🏼

[@Aasenzeng]

omg Bret’s breathing reps are so relatable, I didn’t even know what I was doing had a name lol

[@michaelsofine]

Thanks for the advice so I don’t get killed working out at the gym by myself lol

[@mikewalkow1860]

I've been lifting for 37 years. My best gains strength and size were training to failure. For squats that often meant going until.i had to set the weight in the rack in the bottom. Problem is it's hard to break yourself of that, and I've been injured alot. It became a psychological need for me. I recently started using a BFR unit, an actual medical grade one with a manual pump. I can satisfy that need to go to failure, or near failure with a way lighter load, so light I'm dumbfounded that such a light weight could be so hard and cause so much DOMS, with little to no risk of injury and still have hypertrophy. Great content on all your videos and I have started training glutes more directly since I tore my hamstring last fall.

[@chrisatteridge]

Love it love it love it

[@utubebrowseupload]

This was incredibly well done bret!

[@monicasterki565]

❤️‍🔥🙋‍♀️🇦🇺 Love being on #YourJouney

[@SetFreeAndLiving]

Extremely comprehensive, and I loved it. Thank you very much Bret, you are one of my favorite online fitness teachers. There are a lot of peoples videos on this topic that make me feel like they went into the video filming process with biased opinion. Then they will cherry pick studies, calling science down like a new religion, and not mention the multiple other studies to say the opposite. Also, there are many of people who go the opposite route and fuel their information strictly anecdotally without much experience. You come from both angles and show both sides. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@keshinilt]

I was sick last week and I haven't gone back to gym this week because I'm SCARED of going back to my deadlifts 😂

[@ecosan2655]

Sucha great answer for this topic. Thank you so much for it!

[@calipag4626]

Hilarious, do 10 more. I love this video.

[@shaypierre4132]

I’m gonna try this.

[@pencilcaseblue4203]

Aw man, that’s some impressive credentials!!

[@gayaneoganesyan8314]

Love, love, love all the shorts!!! Amazing information! Thank you Bret!!

[@maryammoradi2899]

Thank you👌👌👌🌺My gratitude to you for all you have done. I truly appreciate you and your time you spent making this video . Thank you very much. I enjoyed every minute of this video♥️

[@vladcraioveanu233]

If you want to go to failure, why doing benchpress and not db press or even 1 hand push up variation?

[@Corrans]

Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge with us. It's so helpful! Much appreciated.

[@abigialgregory9235]

Thank you! 😊

[@martynaserocka3825]

Hahahha then he 🌬🌬🌬 and then aggrrr and them push and 🌬🌬🌬 😂 love that

[@rociorocio9436]

Thank you so much for the content. Blessings

[@benzemach776]

This is gold bret. Thank you so much.

[@dominoplay3712]

Bret, thanks for this, maybe a thought or two on adrenals/cortisol and how to balance it with hiit?

[@MayaAgrippine]

Brilliant as always Bret

[@elocruz6145]

siempre tan profesional y claro a la vez! desde Argentina..gracias bret!

[@ewadybinska6843]

I can't lift heavy weights because I have a problem with my spine, I do more reps and more sets, and in my case it works. But I would like to change something, especially in the lower trainings, but I don't know how and what, in order not to hurt myself, could you advise me something? thank you 😌

[@Reppintimefitness]

Bret 🔥💯🔥

[@tilakrajgolari1577]

I am waiting for your hypertrophy books,sir.

[@VW1030]

I really do like your KZbin channel & advice...,♥️🎉♥️🎉

[@rickyj2741]

Hey Brett Can I have your thoughts on cardio after leg/glute workout? I’ve been sprinting for a few minutes post lower body day, main purpose is I push myself to the limit and also love it but reading a lot of stuff saying it will kill gains

[@sidseergaming]

whats the conclusion? to train to failue or not? video is too long

[@petchkorsu7504]

Thank you ☺️

[@Coach_Nika]

Good one 👌🏼

[@nellyherrera3151]

Excelente!!!!

[@serisingh]

I almost always fail to keep good form or get a perfect muscle contraction before I fail in the traditional sense of not being able to complete the rep. Is it better to stop before your from degrades, or sacrifice a bit of form to push to absolute failure?

[@bretcontreras1]

It depends. For example with curls, I like 1-2 cheat reps at the end with strict negatives. But with squats and hip thrusts I don't like people having a sloppy last rep or two

[@atamagni7418]

Awesome

[@kempos81]

Thanks Bret. If you train alone how do you learn when to cut the deadlift set due to back rounding?

[@bretcontreras1]

Film yourself and review...over time you gain expertise in knowing how much your spine is rounding throughout the set and what's safe vs too risky

[@michaelsofine]

I saw a guy bleed doing clean and jerk at an Olympic lift highschool meet one time, everyone thought he was on steroids maybe he wasn’t

[@TrynagetJacked]

You could say the all have flaws but logically hit principles applied correct stand out more less chance of injury less time in the gym with brilliant gains for some not all though

[@lisajudkins9859]

Brett can you please do a video on creatine if it's necessary or not .. I recently started taking it months ago I do notice more muscle gains, energy and stamina during workouts.

[@TeamKlaus]

I have a question !! Everyone always says that deadlifts are great to grow the glutes but when I do them I don’t feel any burn on my glutes just a lil bit in my lower back I checked correct form videos but I can’t find what’s wrong when I do it. Is it essential to do deadlifts or good mornings? Or is it okay if I just do sets of bulgarian split squats, hip thrusts and leg raises?

[@cocatezz]

Try romanian deadlifts instead

[@amandareed4689]

Do you have a glute lab in Vegas now?

[@bananasfit7365]

I got lost with the history. What exactly is training to failure. You do the first set until you cant perform the exercise woth proper form anymore? and then 2 other sets normally?

[@EnjoySynthSounds]

To failure each set. Instead you could do drop sets- 15 on your biggest weight, then continue with a much lower weight. Its safer that way, and you can get the pump.

[@mmelissap]

the brench press acting... someone call Juilliard

[@ConsultingDoctor394]

Thank you so much for this Bret! You’re probably my favorite channel for fitness info and all of your videos are gold!

[@PrezzMr]

New Video 😎💯

[@joelpineda2042]

Wait a minute there. The inventor of the bar hip trust? U mean a machine rt? I'm 50 yrs old and when I was around 19 or 20 I remember seeing a young lady doing them in the local boys club and seeing them on a magazine yrs later. Just a different name.

[@MissMer_1980]

Bret - how many days a week is safe to do glutes?

[@sheabutta5425]

Go Bret!! Lay out those credentials!

[@LenaWildChild]

24:41 Lmao 😂

[@ChloesWainFitFans]

If you have 30 minutes for Facebook, you have 1 hour for the gym!

[@monicasterki565]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🍑🍑❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🇦🇺🙋‍♀️Love Your #ContentAlways 👏👏🏆📚

[@AureliesANatural]

I recon you should get into acting now 😀

[@vladcraioveanu233]

If we are talking about professional bodybuilders, why not Ronnie Coleman?! He is the top of the top. How did Coleman trained?

[@giuliam2531]

I think nobody's having any doubt of how Ronnie Coleman used to train

[@vladcraioveanu233]

@@giuliam2531 Ronnie Coleman was one of a kind, the one and only. .

[@giuliam2531]

@@vladcraioveanu233 he's a legend, but he is living proof that there is such thing as too much

[@michaelsofine]

Failure isn’t easy because if you don’t have help you can drop something on your face

[@alexanderwindh4830]

No you don't go to failure. This training is to go even further beyond

[@michaelsofine]

Bret why are you single, and why did I need to know this lol

[@koolertrek]

What?????

[@michaelsofine]

Military press, I used my legs today to help get it up

[@tracef195]

My only question is why the heck are you single??

[@bretcontreras1]

My looks have faded lol...just super busy and focused on my career I guess

[@tracef195]

You still got it going on!!!

[@hockeymomavalon2499]

@@bretcontreras1 totally handsome!! 😍

[@girl_on_fire_x_x]

I would imagine there would be a huge amount of jealousy involved in his relationships, what with Bret's line of work.

[@SandrinaN]

But are you single?! :)

[@austinhenshaw2140]

Not sure you want that.🙂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/epKTdqGHh5qqZ6c

[@juniorandrew4159]

Why take an advice from a guy that trained for 30 years and look like he dont lift...eat it sleep it breath it yet u dont have....phd or not...if u cant develop your own body ur not fit to give knowledge on the stuff...otherwise u just reading research paper n shouting i have phd in sports science...

[@Lolalaughsx]

Are you serious??? Have you seen his body, his befores?! Have you seen the countless women he’s trained and how amazing they look?!?? You don’t even have a photo and that says soooo much

[@juniorandrew4159]

​@Lolalaughsx @Lolalaughsx @Lolalaughsx 😂😂😂 I do not have picture because I do not go seeking attention, believe it or not there are people who there with excellent physique and great knowlege that do not exist on KZbin...also why are u talking with that one tot pic you have up..but i will make not presumptions..just as you have and yes he his physique is still subpar and I'm sure it's due to too much sports science drowning out what actually works...the guy is a clown