Wed, Oct-22-03, 16:51
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Plan: IF +LC
Stats: 287/165/165
BF:
Progress: 100%
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Oh God, why did I post this? My masochism is showing through. OK, so I'll do this before my UBW. It's something I've always had a hard time doing so I'd like to add it into my program. LOL, maybe I can poke my eye out with a sharp stick while I'm at it.
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Snort! I actually laughed out loud when I read this - thanks. (good thing I wasn't also chugging water)
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I'm probably not working myself hard enough b/c the burn gets in the way. How do you work past the burn? Is that just psychological? Although I'm not fatigued, I don't think I can do another rep b/c the burn hurts too bad. I get the worst burn in my calves that causes me to limp for a bit immediately afterwards.
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The burn is lactic acid build up and it only lasts for a few minutes. If you stop and rest (breathing deeply will help it pass faster - it's due to a lack of oxygen to the cells) you will be able to resume the exercise. It doesn't happen with the upper body because you're able to lift to failure quicker. I remember reading a post over at ABC explaining that the goal of weight lifting was not how much you could lift, but how quickly you could get to (positive) failure - the faster the better. The weights are lighter for upper body as the muscles are much smaller and we (women) tend to be pretty weak, so hitting failure isn't difficult.
There are tricks to working the muscle harder with less weight - using drop sets, emphasizing the eccentric portion of the exercise (the negative part, usually where you are lowering the weight), forced reps, cheat reps. Here's a little more of a detailed explanation from my old gym log.
Stay away from those sharp sticks, will yah?
Nat
p.s. There's a Lactic Acid thread in the BFL hot links thread
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