Lighter weight lifting with more reps might be safer and easier to stick with than pushing yourself to the max every time.

Lifting heavier weights with proper form was better than lifting lighter weights for building both muscle strength and size in men after 3 months of training.

If you lift weights without pushing yourself to total exhaustion, you might get stronger faster—especially if you end up doing more total lifts overall compared to people who do go all the way to failure.

If you lift weights until you can't do another rep, your body feels like you worked harder than if you stopped before failure—even if you did the same total number of reps and sets.

If you don’t push yourself to the absolute limit during weight training, you might actually get stronger faster—because you can do more total lifts overall.

Doing more sets of weightlifting seems to build muscle more reliably than how close you get to failing on each set—whether you stop short or push to exhaustion doesn’t change the muscle growth much if you’re doing the same number of sets.