On: Building muscle doesn't require lifting heavy weights

[sliverstorm]

It seems feasible it could work better. If you lift an X lb weight until you cannot lift it anymore, and then drop to X/2 lbs, you can lift again, and can drive your muscles even further into exhaustion.

(whether that's good or bad though, I don't know)

[akmiller → sliverstorm]

We used this method in high school (called it burnout then) and it never ceased to fail that a pretty girl would walk in when you got down to the bar and could barely lift it!