Do you think that someone who can endure more pain, or in another words a really hard “burn” from utilizing a muscle while exercise will get more muscular then someone who has a low pain threshold?
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bob357sig
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Don’t know how I missed this till now but my answer is yes. I absolutely believe one of the biggest reasons most guys only go through a lifting “phase” and don’t stick with it long term is that they can’t handle the pain. Most “normal” people are not cut out for this lifestyle. If you don’t have a few issues going on upstairs “your brain” then I don’t think they have what it takes to work through pain, eat when they are full just to get the protein in, make the sacrifices in time for the gym, workout even when they are tired or feeling off, exc exc. you got to actually like the pain. Physical pain helps me with emotional pain. Without the gym I would be a self abusing alcoholic, without the gym I was a self abusing alcoholic! Fucked up but truth.
Yes, in regards to isolation, but that same mentality doesn't really apply to compounds. When you're on your third rep and set of a heavy 5x5 squat session, your legs don't "burn" with lactic acid, your entire body is just fucking dead. In that regard, it's usually guys with the mental fortitude to push through the fatigue that grow like crazy. And those are two different mindsets.
Continuing to curl when your biceps burn after nearly hitting failure on 50 lbs dumbbells isn't the same as grinding out that last squat of 430 lbs. One mentality requires you to attack the weight, while the other requires you to just sit back and deal with the burning feeling.
I know because I love compounds and use to hate isolation. I actually didn't do any isolation movements for the first 3 years or so of training, and didn't implement them at all until I realized my quads, chest, and back looked like they belonged on someone with 10 times the shoulder and biceps mass I had.
Continuing to curl when your biceps burn after nearly hitting failure on 50 lbs dumbbells isn't the same as grinding out that last squat of 430 lbs. One mentality requires you to attack the weight, while the other requires you to just sit back and deal with the burning feeling.
I know because I love compounds and use to hate isolation. I actually didn't do any isolation movements for the first 3 years or so of training, and didn't implement them at all until I realized my quads, chest, and back looked like they belonged on someone with 10 times the shoulder and biceps mass I had.
Bumpygooch
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In short, yes, to some degree. Gets counted in the genetics equation. I tore my supraspinatus and infraspinatus off the bone in December. In the 3 week interim before surgery, I was still figuring out a way to OHP. It was either it didn’t hurt or my pain tolerance is high(I surmise the latter based on my opioid resistance, another story for another day). But, yes, like I said, it plays a role, being able to work through minor injuries, etc, all part of the genetics theory.
Yes. But i don’t think it’s really about pain at all.
To some level this is entirely trainable. This question stands for anyone who’s successful at almost anything. Barring elite talent (and even elite talent has to work), nearly everyone who’s achieved something has done so by tolerating the here and now for the rewards of then and there down the road.
this is as simple as using your little voice in your head to do that 11th rep instead of stopping at 10. Studies show every tiny victory of that sort adds up momentum, physically, in your brain, that makes that behavior more easily achieved the next time.
some of us are tapped and will excel easier at this or anything else where passion crosses ability. But most people are capable of far more than they do daily.
To some level this is entirely trainable. This question stands for anyone who’s successful at almost anything. Barring elite talent (and even elite talent has to work), nearly everyone who’s achieved something has done so by tolerating the here and now for the rewards of then and there down the road.
this is as simple as using your little voice in your head to do that 11th rep instead of stopping at 10. Studies show every tiny victory of that sort adds up momentum, physically, in your brain, that makes that behavior more easily achieved the next time.
some of us are tapped and will excel easier at this or anything else where passion crosses ability. But most people are capable of far more than they do daily.
One more comment; I’ve yet to find the edge of the map I fall over from telling myself “you’re a bitch” and doing 1 more rep. 99% of people are so fucking far from an edge it would take decades to reach. Do one more.
I genuinely think 99% of the population is completely incapable of overtraining the CNS.
JC Grifter
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My mom had an incredible tolerance for pain and she was little and had trouble putting on muscle. So who knows.
I tend to agree with @Mac11wildcat way of thinking on this.
I tend to agree with @Mac11wildcat way of thinking on this.
