Resistance training beyond momentary failure: the effects of past-failure partials on muscle hypertrophy in the gastrocnemius.

ABSTRACT: Muscle hypertrophy is often a desired goal of resistance training, and strategies that extend training beyond momentary failure may enhance muscular adaptations. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess whether performing additional past-failure partial repetitions beyond momentary failure increased muscle hypertrophy. A total of 23 untrained men completed a 10-week within-participant intervention study. This study comprised two weekly resistance training sessions of four sets of standing Smith machine calf raises. One limb was randomly allocated to the control condition performing sets to momentary failure (PLANTAR_MF), and the other limb was allocated to the test intervention that included additional past-failure partial repetitions in the lengthened position (DORSI

SUBMITTER: Larsen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11847862 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature