The chronic impact of high intensity training is unavoidable even when every possible control is implemented. And when I refer to high intensity, I’m not talking exclusively about failure training—anything that would be considered sufficiently stimulating (I.e. effective reps) is intense enough to warrant mitigation strategies. It’s not enough to

I understand that this article is probably a bit longer and more detailed than you bargained for. And if you’ve made it this far, congratulations! There’s a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo littering this piece, and knowing myself, I’ve probably got side-tracked and gone off on a tangent once or thrice.

What Are Intensity Techniques? For our purposes, Intensity Techniques (ITs) are methods of increasing the average proximity-to-failure of a given volume OR performing a greater density of volume at a given intensity, when compared to straight sets. In other words, something can be classified as an IT if allows for