Training to failure is too much for me
I can do 15 push-ups in the first set, but on the following sets I can do no more than 2 reps. After first set to failure, my muscles are so exhausted I can’t perform any more normal reps (I can do only negatives). That goes for all upper-body body-weight exercises. Is this normal, what should I do?
I’ve just started working out so I do only compound body-weight exercises:
Dips, push-ups, crunches, rest for one minute and repeat twice, or
Chin-ups, inverted rows, crunches, rest for one minute and repeat twice.
How many reps, sets and rest would you recommend to avoid this tiredness muscles?
Would you overtrain if you did every set of every exercise to failure even though you’re doing a reasonable volume?
Would you see better gains by not going to failure except maybe on 1 or 2 exercises?
gee, there must be some reason they call it "failure"