Lifting to failure is overrated.

We've discussed many times about the pros and cons of lifting to failure, but most of those conversations have revolved around using higher relative resistances (closer to your 1 rep max). So, what if we compared using a higher resistance and a lower resistance and lifted to failure and not to failure in each scenario? Do you think strength improvements were the same? What about improvements in muscle size? Like the saying I use all the time, can we do "less work" but still get the same result... Tune in and find out all the juicy details.