How often should you MAX OUT?

If your goal is to build muscle, then you should never be maxing out in the gym: here’s why. Quick side note code “MAXE” on myprotein is 50% off until the 19th, highly highly recommend these heritage oversized tees. Anyway, if you watched my video on training intensity, you’d know that the last 5 reps of any set taken to failure are the only ones that matter, since these are the reps that involuntarily slow down, causing your muscles to produce more force, and thus eliciting hypertrophy. But because these reps require so much effort, as you get closer to failure, you start building up more and more fatigue. Now if you were only to do that last rep before failure, or a 1 rep max, then you’d essentially just be missing out on all of that hypertrophy from those 4 earlier reps, but still getting all of that fatigue from training to failure. So not very efficient. And you might be thinking, well what about programs that tell you to do 80% of your 1 rep max for x number of reps, don’t you need to know your max to figure that out. Well hot take, if this is on your program, it is not a good hypertrophy program. Just because you can do a certain weight for 1 rep, does not mean you can do 80% of it for another. Unless you are strictly training to increase your strength, you never have to deal with any of these fancy percentages, just choose a rep range and a weight, take that set to failure, and if you do more reps than thought, increase the weight, and if you do less, decrease it. It really is that simple. And before I get any comments, yes, obviously you can train however you want to, if you love maxing out and testing your strength, by all means go for it, it’s not like it’s gonna ruin all your progress, I just wouldn’t recommend doing it very often, since it isn’t a very efficient use of your time if your goal is to build muscle.

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[MaxEuceda]

Of course, train how you like. If you want to max out every now and then to assess your strength, go for it. But from a hypertrophy standpoint it is not very beneficial and absolutely not required. So just stick to 5-10 reps with very high intensity for the majority of your exercises and you'll be fine 👍

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[shredmasterlife]

Tbh, at 16 years, maxing out just makes me feel strong and that gives me motivation to overcome other problems in life

[alexandermangos]

Max, thank you for consistently providing no bs, valuable information to the fitness community

[handono]

I knew about this before but sometimes i forgot because of my ego. Thank you Max ❤

[pewdiepiekjellberg]

Completely agree I max out every couple of months because it’s fun but if you do it thinking it’s getting you jacked you are mistaken.

[Blaha_the_Welfare_SLAVE]

Muscle is awesome, and I love building muscle. But strength, power, and performance is way more satisfying for me personally as someone who actually does a sport

[ericgamer]

Thanks Max for doing a Max quality video about how often should we Max out 👍

[Hirotara]

Bro's not a douche, great personality and is funny af, the whole package right here 😎

[gabrielmartin]

Good vid as always bro! Cannot explain how much I look up to you, man. I just finished building a split based around your "how to grow" series and your "training basics" series. Would love to see some more vids with some of your everyday life stuff included or stuff like your full day of eating vids, if that could happen! Love you dawg!

[Ftbl.hmed]

You are on point, I always like maxing out but i dont do it very often usually every couple of weeks i would try a set to see how much stronger ive got/ Try to reach my goal when it comes to lifting a certain weight

[micharainczuk]

Hey Max, is there anything "suboptimal" you like doing in the gym?

[AidenLongo]

“I shoulder pressed 135 lbs”
Oh nice, one plate is a lot!
“Nah, like, in each hand”

[xxxmarko]

Very well spoken max, appreciate these videos dude🙌

[bjornroriksted]

thank you, max. yet another helpful video :)

[AdamGregory]

Hey Max, would love to see an updated full day of eating. Just out of curiosity, I was wondering why you don’t eat eggs. They’re a pretty staple bodybuilding food. No judgment, just wondering if you have an allergy or something.

[Moussa_H]

For a second I was confused whether you were recommending to avoid training to absolute failure every session, but I get now that you mean not to go for a 1 rep max. I guess that’s what “maxing out” means

[volusian]

Click for the lifting advice, stay for the Salamanca bracing-face

[powerplantpipe]

I weigh 680 pounds 4% bodyfat and I max out on all my lifts every 4 hours

[Unknown-fmxs]

Can't wait for the 46 videos Mario makes regarding this video

[kyleakimura]

Could you do an updated how to grow your triceps video pls 🐢?