When learning how to strength train, everyone focuses on how to lift weights correctly. Once they learn an exercise, they move on to the next one.
But learning how to fail correctly should be the next thing people learn.
I’m grateful that a personal trainer taught me how to fail a squat. He made me practise it in a packed gym and everyone looked at me for the loud sound I made. But I needed to feel the sensation of releasing the bar and letting the weight fall off my back, I needed to understand what it meant to move forward out of the way, I needed to hear the clatter of the bar to the ground to not be afraid of doing it if I ever needed to.
Lift right, fail right.