how to know you worked out hard in the gym?

dubois90

should all muscles feel like your legs do on a leg day? my chest is never real sore after a workout but i do lift as much as i can basically.

chest workout is
dumbell flat press 1x12: 1x10: 1x10
incline dumbell press 3x10-
incline flys: 3x10(down 4 seconds and then hold for 4 seconds)

also did 2 sets of dips(managed 7 and then 4 using much more momentum )

Personally I lift heavy enough that I fail on about 6-8 reps. Targeted muscles feel pretty sore the next day if I flex them.

I'm only getting back into lifting at the moment, but I remember when I used to lift about 4 times a week and I found it very hard to get that same feeling, and of course my gains also plateaued.

RHunce

did a chest and tricep workout yesterday so i'd fail on rep 12

my chest and triceps are so sore atm

you know what they say

no pain no gain!!

dubois90

how do i get this feeling? i eat well after workout-tin of tuna, banana and milk so maby this helps.

podge57

after a while you should be able to know what the best way for you to workout is

then you make a plan, and follow it, then you know you will progress

I dont judge it by how i feel afterwards, progress is a much better measurement

dubois90

yes well said podge, i remember when i first ever worked out down in wexford on a weekend away when i was 16 i was dying that night, my bones were like so sore and yeah just felt like crap but i hardly lfited anything that night while now i do proper hard workouts and no real feeling(except when i do legs and shoulders)

Jarren

how to know you worked out hard in the gym?

well...Sweating like a pig does the trick for me..

dubois90

WELL OF COURSE I SWEATED JARECKI.

im trying to think if that maby im not hitting it the right away but i doubt it. i can't really tell how i'm meant to look since i naturally have a big chest.

dubois90

dubois90 wrote: »

how do i get this feeling? i eat well after workout-tin of tuna, banana and milk so maby this helps.

You wont have sore muscles the next day unless you're repping to fail. From the looks of it you're setting yourself a goal, i.e. 12/10 reps which is still a good work out depending on what you're training for.

If it's mass you're looking for then the soreness is important.

dubois90

th thing im looking for is sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which to you and me means sweet f all

i go high because i read this will result in size gains. i take a 65 second break between sets and then 2 minutes between exercixe

RHunce

i used to set goals of 4x8 on about 70% 1max rep

now ive upped the weight to about 85% 1mp

i do 2x12 which is normally my fail, i really have to grind out the last two or three every set

Jarren

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

You wont have sore muscles the next day unless you're repping to fail. From the looks of it you're setting yourself a goal, i.e. 12/10 reps which is still a good work out depending on what you're training for.

If it's mass you're looking for then the soreness is important.

+1

dubois90

by the way i dumbell press max 32 kg each hand and then the flys I use low enough weight 15kg.

VIS VIRES

podge57 wrote: »

after a while you should be able to know what the best way for you to workout is

then you make a plan, and follow it, then you know you will progress

I dont judge it by how i feel afterwards, progress is a much better measurement

+1 You judge your wokouts by the progress you make....more reps,heavier weight etc...

rubadub

dubois90 wrote: »

should all muscles feel like your legs do on a leg day? my chest is never real sore after a workout but i do lift as much as i can basically.

My upper body muscles would never be as bad as my legs after squatting. I don't get leg DOMs after deadlifts though, squats can have me with DOMs for 4 days. Only way to get 2-3 days of upperbody DOMs is doing very heavy negatives.

itsallaboutheL

LOL...

dubois90

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

LOL...

:rolleyes:

nice_guy80

a heart rate monitor? might show how intensely you are working out?

neilmct.com

dubois90 wrote: »

should all muscles feel like your legs do on a leg day? my chest is never real sore after a workout but i do lift as much as i can basically.

chest workout is
dumbell flat press 1x12: 1x10: 1x10
incline dumbell press 3x10-
incline flys: 3x10(down 4 seconds and then hold for 4 seconds)

also did 2 sets of dips(managed 7 and then 4 using much more momentum )

Why have a legs or chest day?

Its old school bodybuilding which works for very few people. There are better methods working off movements not muscle groups.

Dbell flat chest and incline dbell are very similar - so much so that you are just doing 6 sets of horizontal push

flys and dips there too !

personally I hit chest with one maybe 2 exercises but hit an upper / lower split alternating maybe 4 days per week - sometime smore sometimes less

what do you do for back?

do you do any rotator cuff? scaption?