Training Past Failure for Muscle Growth: What Actually Works With Dr. Milo Wolf
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
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Dr. Milo Wolf's Links:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMiloWolf
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmilowolf/
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milo-Wolf
Timestamps
00:00 Intro,Wolf call, s**ty weather
02:35 Why training close to failure generally improves hypertrophy
05:05 Reactive vs planned deloads and fatigue trade-offs
12:29 Injury risk perspective: failure training in context
15:42 Study breakdown: failure vs past-failure training
33:53 Three ways to train past failure: partials, drop sets, and cheat reps
38:45 More stimulus > less volume
47:09 Minimal training dose: how little time can still work
53:36 Escaping all-or-nothing thinking in fitness
59:12 How to track progress when using failure and beyond-failure methods
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the RP Strength podcast. I'm Nick Shaw and today I'm joined by, I think, third time now, Dr. Milo Wolf of the Wolf Pack. How? What's up, man? How are you? I'm good, man. It's good to be back. |
| 0:19.9 | Excit to talk about some past failure training stuff. How are you doing? Yeah. Yeah man. It's good to be back. I'm excited to talk about some past failure training stuff. |
| 0:21.6 | How are you doing? |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty good on this front. How is the lovely weather over in the UK this time of year? Well, we just got an ice warning. Oh, like, you know, the classic like weather warning thing. So, yeah, not too good. like it's a good day when it doesn't rain |
| 0:37.2 | and it's quite a rough. |
| 0:39.8 | Man, it seems like So yeah, not too good. Like it's a good day when it doesn't rain and it's quite rare. |
| 0:39.8 | Man, it seems like this winter in general. |
| 0:43.5 | Like I don't know about in the UK, but in the UK, I'm sorry, in the US, geez, UK, US. |
| 0:49.2 | Like this has been a tough winter like all around. |
| 0:52.2 | Like worse than normal. I'm talking. I grew up in Michigan. It's usually pretty cold, snowy up there. And like my parents are saying it's been one of the worst ones in a while. It snowed almost a foot down here in North Carolina, which like, yeah, yeah, that was crazy. First time in like 25 years, they've had that much. But a lot of people getting sick, sort of including myself on and off, and talk to the handful of people and that seems to be the trend. Is that kind of the case over UK? |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, man, I think the festive period specifically, like New Year's Eve and thereabouts kind of gets a lot of people sick. And I think that kind of carries over for a few weeks where everyone just gets sick afterwards as well leaves a trail |
| 1:30.5 | I'm always jealous in winter of places like California or whatever where rain is at least not that common, you know? Because here's just |
| 1:38.5 | It never stops just constant rain every single day, which makes getting steps in horror. Yeah, yeah. That's what you're about. |
| 1:45.0 | For sure. |
| 1:46.0 | Actually, why? |
| 1:47.0 | Because, you know, Mike, Scott, was it Max, and soon to be Dylan, who actually edits all these, |
| 1:52.0 | you know, they're going to be living up in Michigan full time. |
| 1:55.0 | And so Mike Scott, and I believe even Jared are down in the Miami area for the whole month of February just to get out of that shit. |
| 2:04.7 | So that, you know, says something right there. |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah, no, it's rough. |
| 2:08.5 | I think a lot of people do the right thing and go somewhere bit warmer and less rainy during the winter season, especially for fitness. |
| 2:14.5 | It's difficult, you know. |
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