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TeeUp Posts: 8 Joined: 2007/07/25	2007/08/25, 04:32 PM Ok, So Ive been lifting for about three months. Ive gone up in weights but recently when I get done with my routine my arms are not as swelled. Also I dont sweat as much. How do I get my swell back!!
big_j_scf Posts: 308 Joined: 2003/11/08	2007/08/25, 05:54 PM you need to increase the intensity. when you start, it's no problem to get that pump goin. but when your muscles have become accustomed, you need to work harder.
ecle5c Posts: 1,312 Joined: 2003/07/10	2007/08/27, 09:12 AM Try cutting out the isolation exercises and throw in some heavy back exercises. You can get the arm swell as well as a back swell. Better overall.
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2007/08/30, 11:19 PM that "swell" has ntohingt o do with muscle growth..just makes you feel like a B-A...I wouldn't worry about it really. But what your refering to is called the "pump." I haven't had a "pump" in months....and i'm doing just fine. -------------- \"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, and repetition\" You have to learn to follow, before you can lead.
ecle5c Posts: 1,312 Joined: 2003/07/10	2007/08/31, 02:11 PM You're definitely coming onto these boards and acting like quite the expert.
Pemdas Posts: 973 Joined: 2004/07/22	2007/08/31, 02:32 PM Eating has everything to do with muscle growth.
Pemdas Posts: 973 Joined: 2004/07/22	2007/08/31, 02:45 PM No offense man, but you sound like a broken record regurgitating the contents of a PT exam. If the "pump" is so important then how is it that Olympic and Power lifters get such huge muscles.
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2007/08/31, 05:47 PM Well I can pick up a 10lb dbs and get one hell of a pump by doing 25+ reps...doubt that will cause any muscle mass gain in the long run. In a round abotu way..it MAY help with soem muscle gain. By geting blood flow to muscles delivering more oxygen, nutrients etc etc blah blah. But in the long run unless you break musle tissue down, fatigue the contracitle fibers whatever. You won't get any kind of hypertrophy. If the "pump" worked so well...then NO2 products wouldn't be a big scam...and everyoeen would have massive guns. -------------- \"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, and repetition\" You have to learn to follow, before you can lead.
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2007/08/31, 05:54 PM You train for a "pump"..i'll keep training the way I train..we'll see who's bigger and stronger at the end? -------------- \"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, and repetition\" You have to learn to follow, before you can lead.
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2007/09/01, 12:43 AM Civility, people. Don't make me have to remind you again... -------------- Michael Humble, even in Victory.
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2007/09/02, 07:22 PM I train with maximal weight all the time...I don't get a pump( very rarly)...but I still get stonger and bigger? -------------- \"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, and repetition\" You have to learn to follow, before you can lead.
big_j_scf Posts: 308 Joined: 2003/11/08	2007/09/02, 09:33 PM I like, simply, to use the pump as an indicator that I am successfully working the target muscle(s). Perhaps there is some other scientific benefit to it, but it is ussually a good indication that you are placing the stress correctly on the muscle.
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2007/09/02, 09:44 PM ============ Quoting from wiatt-training: Pemdas, you don't think olympic and power lifters get a pump when they work out? ============= I don't know if I speak for everyone, but I don't. -------------- SQUAT MORE ~Jesse Marunde Mortal by birth. Strongman by the grace of god. Blood Guts Sweat Chalk
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2007/09/02, 10:14 PM I don't really either..haven't had a "pump" in many months -------------- \"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, and repetition\" You have to learn to follow, before you can lead.