The kid I got to try leg pressing for a set of 100, not only had I gotten him to break some mental barriers as far as to his own self imposed physical limitations, he got extremely euphoric, obvious by his actions (literally running around and jumping), and by his stating “I’ve never felt a pump like this”.
“You’d never pushed that far before.”
“I hadn’t, I didn’t know you could.”
I got him to do his old workout’s total volume in one set, plus we’d been doing other stuff.
The day’s training just blew him past his priorly accepted limits.
He’d felt good from the gym before, but had never experienced “top of the world” from physicality.
I’m glad I taught him to go that far.
I knew this before, both in that he just needed a little push to get there, and that I myself use this methodology more than most.
That feeling, that he experienced for the first time, and I’ve known of for awhile, that’s what I’m looking for from the gym.
This feeling is what Arnold meant when he said the pump is like an orgasm.
You honestly push physically and when you pass the line you get euphoric.
Push further, you’ll get there.
Persistence & Tenacity