: Training Pull Ups to failure with more volume I hear a lot that you should not train pull ups to failure, so I usually do strength training with lots of rest in between sets. The reps depend on whether I choose to do Fighter

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I don't see why training pull-ups to failure would be worse than something else. You just can't do it every time because you fry your nervous system and need time to recover. Doing it too frequently therefore raises the probability of injury. And given that the pull ups may cause some damage to the shoulder I would assume this is the reason, the shoulder being a complicated body part to keep healthy and heal.

Now to your question, strength has two components : a "physical" one and a "nervous one". The physical one is gained by increasing the size/number of your muscle fibers. The number is apparently not easy (or even possible) to increase while the size can be increase via classical body building training i.e. higher number of repetitions i.e. more volume. The nervous one is gained by training at low repetitions because then the strength is gained through better coordination of the muscle fibers together, better coordination of inter-related muscles and firing-rate of the necessary muscles. Take up any good book on strength training and you should see those two components.

So ... I would say it depends on what you want to achieve. Going to failure also trains the psychological aspect of it, your capacity to overcome "pain" and "tiredness".