Contractile failure is the main trigger to stimulate muscle growth. That means you go until can't get another full rep with good form.
The key in this variation of rest-pause training is hitting failure at several points in the same set. Basically, one "set" may be two minutes long with little 10-second breaks taken within the set. "Death by" means that you continue until you can't do any more. Here's an example.
Continue doing the same process until you can only perform a single complete rep in a mini-set, where you know that getting a second one would be impossible.
Since these sets are amazingly powerful but also traumatic on the body, only do one or maybe two sets per exercise. This method is ideal for isolation lifts.
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