opinions on this

I recently bought a pack of books "the best of mens heath magazine" now before anyone starts taking the piss they were in the bargin bin at asda for £1 with their RRP being £47.99 so I thought I can't go wrong for a quid!

Anywho I was reading a section in it about how you know when your workouts are going well or not going well ie are you making progress or not are you overtraining etc. One part of it said that you should be as strong from one set to the next so if you are doing bench press you should be as strong on your third and you are on your first and if not you are

Not eating correclty
not taking enough rest between sets etc

That is the gist of it anyway but it is th eopposite of what I seem to be doing. If I am doing bench I usually use the same weight for 3 sets and aim for 10 reps. My fisrt set I usually get 10 OK, the 2nd I struggle and sometimes fail at 9 and the 3rd I fail at 6/7 and after that my checst feels nice and pumped.

I have alwaus though training to failure was a good thing???

Opinions please!!!

The old training to failure debate! lol

It's a tool, nothing more, nothing less.

Yeah, as highlighted above, it depends on how you train.
 
I like to train to the point where i pretty much know i won't manage another rep, or to failure if i don't actually get that last rep.
 
It does'nt feel right to me to be able to manage the same weight and reps on my last set that i also did for my first set, would feel like i'd not worked hard enough.
 
 
Others will train differently though, and still get results. There is no right or wrong. Find what suits you best by using trial and error.
 
 
 

Yeah I wasn't planning on paying much attention to it. Was really the statemnt about if you are failing you aren't eating enough etc that got me.

I always train to failure and don't see any reason for me to change it. A lot of the time I don't actually count reps just lift until I can lift no more

The pricing explains it!