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Aznleeman
Profile Joined November 2007
United States208 Posts
August 18 2009 02:35 GMT
#21
Overdose on Advil or Tylenol and go do some reps. Make sure you get a spotter though, so you don't fall asleep and get crushed.
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artofmagic
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
United States1951 Posts
August 18 2009 02:37 GMT
#22
did you do proper breathing technique?
evolve or die
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
August 18 2009 02:39 GMT
#23
oh shi-

i pay no attention to my breathing at all o,o that bad?
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
August 18 2009 02:42 GMT
#24
On August 18 2009 11:39 EsX_Raptor wrote:
oh shi-

i pay no attention to my breathing at all o,o that bad?


As long as you remember to breathe consistently and regularly, you should be fine. Yeah its kind of important to get oxygen to your muscles It would probably ease the burn a bit too.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
August 18 2009 03:00 GMT
#25
exhale during contraction
inhale during relaxation
Pengu1n
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States552 Posts
August 18 2009 03:02 GMT
#26
i dont think you should go till failure every time but when you do you should have a spotter obviously. i think having a spotter (if u dont already) will help motivate u to go till complete failure
eshlow
Profile Joined June 2008
United States5210 Posts
August 18 2009 03:14 GMT
#27
If your goal is performance you should pretty much never go to failure. CNS recovery is your main worry, and to get the most amount of quality work in you don't want to go to failure.

If you're in it for aesthetics I think a combination of failure and non-failure work is fine. Like travis said you still want to maximize volume of work (because you need enough at heavy enough weight to create microtears in your muscles for your body to heal and get bigger), but you also need to go to failure to stimulate all fibers.

I am a fan of lifting VERY heavy though to hit the most musculature with most/all of the recruitable fibers in the muscles; thus, 1-5 RM for heavy compounds... then finish off with isolation work in 5-12 rep range if aesthetics is the goal.
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SnK-Arcbound
Profile Joined March 2005
United States4423 Posts
August 18 2009 04:06 GMT
#28
You need to make a distinction between "good" muscle pain and "bad" muscle pain. You don't have to work until muscle failure, but you need to full exhaust the muscle to cause tears so it can strengthen.

You could try shorter amount of reps and higher sets with more weight.
igotmyown
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
August 18 2009 04:56 GMT
#29
Calves go for it (unless it's that like that sharp shooting pain you get sometimes). Back I would be careful, and I don't see the point of maxing out your back.

And you don't need spotters for curls/back extensions, you just drop the weight.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-18 05:32:03
August 18 2009 05:30 GMT
#30
Sounds like muscles on the verge of cramping.

^Yeah, it depends on where the pain is but if it's something important like back I wouldn't push it.
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