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Momentary Muscular Failure: The point of an exercise at which you have so fully fatigued the working muscles that they can no longer complete an additional repetition of a movement with strict form.

Basically if you have performed as many repetitions for any given exercise and find that lifting one more repetition is impossible, then you have reached 100% level of intensity. This also means that the muscles involved in the exercise have been worked to Momentary Muscular Failure and have been stimulated to optimum levels. Should you stop short by a few repetitions of intensity then you will not reach MMF and you will have stopped short of the threshold leading to lean muscular growth. In a nutshell, intensity is the key to success here, reach it and you'll force those muscles to grow, fall short of it and the muscles will have no stimulus to grow on.

This High-Intensity exercise is what will place the necessary demands on your muscles to increase in muscular size and strength. This exercise program will also increase strength and overall ability in other physical activities, and generally creates a feeling of well-being. Unfortunately the reverse effect can often happen and the trainee can be left feeling tired, drained and without energy. Obviously you will feel tired at the end of your first few workouts if you are new to exercise and weight lifting, but if the feeling persists it is a clear indication that you are over training. Workouts should never exceed the recovery ability of the body.

High-intensity exercise places enormous demands on the body that are not easily met. A muscle being worked very hard requires vast quantities of oxygen and nutrition and the quality training program will not have the full effect without proper diet and lifestyle. When exercise is completed it is vitally important the muscles are given sufficient time to return to normal. It is actually during rest periods that your muscles will grow. Failure to rest your muscles and continuing with high-intensity work to soon after your previous workout will result in muscle deterioration and loss in both muscle strength and size.