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Can you FEEL when your muscles are stimulated enuff?

Jungnaut

Jungnaut

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Yeah, like the title says, we want to rock up to the gym and train with sufficient intensity to provide a stimulus for muscle growth. Now the scoop of WPI post workout shake question is.. Can you feel when this actually happens??

Look at it this way. There is A) a point whereby the muscles where they are stimulated (most likely during your warmup). Then further into the session there must be B) a point where there is sufficient stimulus and further training isn't going to reap any more benefits for muscle growth. (after 4-5 exercises high intensity)

Can you physically feel A and B happening in your workout? If so please describe it to me please I like to hear it thanks!
 
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Def do with my cock, as in:
A) erection (warmup)
B) ejeculation (sufficient stimulus)
 
So...this comes down to whether you like to train near, at, or beyond failure. The important thing is that over time you are progressing in weight/volume.
 
Not a chance, unless I haven't been going past that point. You'd assume your RPE scale would be sufficient enough to gauge this though
 
The only reliable source I have right now is RPE.

First work set and RPE 9 reached, I go 'rightio, let's go to town with this shall we hon?'

Five exercises in, and trying for a 10 repper but end up with just 6? 'ok look at the state of you, you've had enough now. kthxbai xoxo'

That's how I gauge the stimulus levels of my training right now.
 
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So...this comes down to whether you like to train near, at, or beyond failure. The important thing is that over time you are progressing in weight/volume.
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So some days when you feel super you don't keep going for extra sets/exercises until you FEEL dat dere stimulus saturation point (despite your program stating 'sir it is time to cease activity and foam roll lovingly for 5 minutes then gtfo')? When on a roll, run with it and all that shizz?
 
When I'm doing my high rep/low weight training program, yep definitely; you get that lactic acid burn. Because the weight is light, you can take it to the limit.

The inverse of this is when I go really heavy for low reps. It will shock the nervous system before getting that muscular fatigue.

If you want that burn, go light weight until failure.
 
I am totally with ya on that one @steveP; and you have articulated one aspect of it which throws the spanner in the works so to speak.

That FEEL of having had enough for the day could come from either the muscles nagging ya to stop (gauged by sensation aka that 'burn', or via performance - pushing out less and less reps per set), or the CNS saying 'no way, hosay!' and forcing you to go from energiser bunny to a run down, shattered holocaust victim all within a space of 5 minnit.
 
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