How close to failure should you train?

A recent meta-analysis has shaken up the fitness community by concluding that you should train pretty much to failure every set. That seems to be the conclusion. If you read the results at face value. And this has also led to a resurgence of the effective reps model. So in this video, I'd like to cover that meta-analysis, the science of how close to failure you should train, and also go into associated terms like junk volume.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:26 Effective reps model
03:33 Greg Nuckols's critique
04:19 Paul Carter's response to Greg's critique
07:22 New meta-analysis
13:33 Why are these results odd?
16:44 Previous meta - Refalo et al.
18:47 Why is the effective reps model flawed?
22:53 Two previous meta-analysis - Vieria et al., Grgic et al.
24:30 Studies on the topic - Martorelli et al., Da Silva et al.
26:02 Conclusion - does volume matter?
29:11 Outro

References
The Chris Beardsley effective reps model:   / what-is-training-volume  
Greg Nuckols’ critique: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/eff...
New meta: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Refalo et al.: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
A motor unit-based model of muscle fatigue: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...
Muscle fiber activation study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
Individual responses for muscle activation: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/3/4/26...
Vieria et al. meta: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33555...
Grgic et al. meta: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Martorelli et al. study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Da Silva et al. study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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