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Training to muscular failure improves running performance.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that training to muscular failure improves running performance?
Unclear. The retrieved meta-analyses address resistance training to failure versus non-failure for strength, hypertrophy, endurance and power, finding failure is not required and may even be slightly inferior for dynamic strength. None of the items measures running performance, so the claim about running performance is not directly settled.
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Evidence against · 3
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Training to failure - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_to_failure
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Grgic, J., Schoenfeld, B. J., Orazem, J., & Sabol, F. (2022). Effects of resistance training performed to repetition failure or non-failure on muscular strength and hypertrophy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2021.01.007
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S, W., L, X., Z, Z., X, Z., X, Y., J, H., K, Z., & P, T. (2026). Effects of resistance training performed to repetition non-failure on exercise performance in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-026-01861-z
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