It is pleasant to do such work, the result of which is immediately visible. In the gym, the situation is much more complicated - the effectiveness of the exercises is far from immediately noticeable. How to determine that the load is selected correctly, and the pace is optimal? There are several ways to find out if your workout has benefited immediately after.
Instructions
Step 1
Pay attention to which muscles are working. A sign of an incorrectly chosen load is tension in the wrong muscles that you are working on. With the first approach, slight discomfort in the joints is possible, but with subsequent approaches it should disappear. After that, you should feel the tension directly in the muscle being trained.
Step 2
You shouldn't feel hungry. The craving for a snack that occurs during exercise indicates that blood glucose levels are dropping. Too much work has led to the fact that the level of glycogen in the muscles decreases too quickly. Your body is about to start using muscle protein as a building material. There is no need to talk about any muscle growth under such conditions.
Step 3
The body should not feel broken. The organism, which has received sufficient stress, experiences a state of pleasant fatigue. A slight tremor in the hands indicates that the load received was decent, but not prohibitive. Nausea, cramps, cold sweats are a sign that you are overtraining.
Step 4
The muscles should increase markedly in size. Several approaches aimed at working out specific muscles should lead to the fact that these muscles increase in volume and gain firmness. This pumping is the most enjoyable sensation you can experience in a weightlifting gym. The results should be obvious. If long sessions do not lead to any positive result, your load is clearly insufficient.
Step 5
You should feel mildly euphoric when you leave the gym. Adequate physical activity leads to the release of joy hormones into the bloodstream: serotonin and endorphin. With insufficient or excessive load, you will not get this effect.
Step 6
From workout to workout, your strength should grow. You can accomplish a little more with each set. This suggests that you are choosing the right training weight, and you have time to rest in the intervals between sets. A decrease in strength is a signal of an incorrect training process. The reasons can be different: insufficient warm-up, too much training weight, performing sets at too fast a pace.
Step 7
You are looking forward to your next workout. The progress made during training leads to the fact that you have confidence in future higher results. If you can't wait to get out of the gym, it's time to start thinking about changing your load.
