Working Sets, is it Necessary....?

I'm wanting to know if it's actually neccessary to complete more than one working set (taken to failure) for any given exercise?
 
For example it's a leg day.
First exercise Squats: A trainee completes several warmup sets without approaching failure or fatigue.
 
They complete one working set, taken to complete failure e.g. 180kg @ 8 Reps.
 
Now if they truely went all out and held nothing back, is there any point in completing another working set? would this just not add to fatigue and delay recovery?

I think that's the type of training Dorian Yates did (google dorian yates blood and guts). If you're doing that type of high intensity training then i guess one set would be plenty. Just one way of training though. I'd probably only do that kind of routine for 6 weeks before going back to a standard 3-4 working sets approach.

Dorian always argued that once a muscle as failed it's failed end of.

I've been training this way for probably 6 months now and it is by far the best method I have used.  This is on the back of watching lots of Dorian Yates videos, intereviews etc.  It makes sense to me that once you have built up to an all-out set and taken that to failure and beyond, no further sets on that exercise are necessary.
 

im doing dc training at the moment is actually one working set per body part???(do google search)for further explanation??

darcy


I think that's the type of training Dorian Yates did (google dorian yates blood and guts). If you're doing that type of high intensity training then i guess one set would be plenty. Just one way of training though. I'd probably only do that kind of routine for 6 weeks before going back to a standard 3-4 working sets approach.

 
I assume that's 3-4 working sets that are stopped pre-failure?

Iron mind



I assume that's 3-4 working sets that are stopped pre-failure?

 
Why can't you fail on each set?