Book excerpt: Beyond Failure Training (BFT) was crafted, tagged (in the year 2000) and popularized by the late Trevor L. Smith, bodybuilding writer and founder of nuclear nutrition. Done correctly, Beyond Failure Training (BFT) stimulates a lot of muscle hypertrophy gains with very little time in the gym ... the series of involved work sets will seem like eternity but they are actually accomplished rather quickly and you get out of the gym in as little as 30 minutes ... even with the loading and unloading of the exercise machines.