Muscle failure means that you cannot do any more reps with good form. If you can't do eight strict reps, the weight's too heavy. If you can do more than 12, the weight's too light. Adjust the weight for your next set.
Standard Sets - You perform as many reps as possible with a single set and stop when you approach muscle failure or complete exhaustion.
Extended Training - Extended training prolongs a standard set.
Regarding the issue of reaching muscle failure or not in all sets, the best advice that I can give you is to perform each set to the point where it would be impossible for you to perform an additional repetition on your own with good form.
If you are a beginner who has been training for at least one month, do three sets of each exercise to muscle failure. Keep going until you feel the burn and can't do another rep.
These intervals keep your body and mind occupied with moves that are easy to learn but tough to master, especially when you're nearing the end of an interval and facing total muscle failure.
Research shows that muscles continue to build fibers and become stronger for up to a week after a workout that is performed to muscle failure.
Suppose that you normally do leg curls with 70 pounds of resistance, and that you reach muscle failure after 10 repetitions.
Training to Failure: To repeat an exercise movement to the point of momentary muscle failure.
Trapezius or "traps": The neck and shoulder muscles that move the shoulders and arms.
HIT (High Intensity Training) - Doing only a few sets per bodypart but taking them all to the point of total muscle failure.
Triple progressive overload and other advanced training techniques will push you beyond muscle failure to help you reach your next level of performance, boost power and strength, and break through plateaus.
Then, in the next session on another day, increasing the weight to the point of muscle fatigue or even muscle failure but doing fewer (4 to 7) reps.
ones you can hoist 6 to 8 times before muscle failure) will develop bulkier muscles.
 See also: Workout, Strength, Fitness, Exercise, Resistance
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