After work out definition

[delta k]

After i lift i look ay myself and say 'wow'. i have arms, abs, deltoids, etc. i look good. but hours later, and especially the next day or 2 it's all gone. i assume that's standard, to some degree. but what, if anything, can i do to keep some of that shape when i'm not lifting/ immediately done lifting?

thanks

[skunkworks]

delta,

Nothing. What you describe is called "pump" and is the result of your muscles being engorged with blood (*insert Beavis and Butthead laugh*). Some meatheads actually design their workouts to maximize pump so they can feel better about themselves for the 1 hour after their workout, but you and I know that this is retarded. Once your muscles go cold, expect shrinkage.

[delta k]

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delta,

Nothing. What you describe is called "pump" and is the result of your muscles being engorged with blood (*insert Beavis and Butthead laugh*). Some meatheads actually design their workouts to maximize pump so they can feel better about themselves for the 1 hour after their workout, but you and I know that this is retarded. Once your muscles go cold, expect shrinkage.

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Figured as much. Maybe i'll just drink that no2 stuff to give me my pump all the time instead of just when im lifting. (lol).

[SmileyEH]

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. It's as satifying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym, I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home, I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage, when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. Its terrific, right? So I am in heaven.

[theblackkeys]

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The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic. It's as satifying to me as cumming is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of cumming in the gym, I'm getting the feeling of cumming at home, I'm getting the feeling of cumming backstage, when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am cumming day and night. Its terrific, right? So I am in heaven.

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lol, where did you get that from?

[SmileyEH]

zomg how could you not know that??@!??!!!111 jk jk. Arnold Swartzenager, in one of the greatest movies ever: Pumping Iron.

[anklebreaker]

I don't have any weak points. I had weak points three years ago, but my main thing in mind is, my goal always was, to even out everything to the point... that everything is perfect. Which means if I want to increase one muscle a half inch, the rest of the body has to increase. I would never make one muscle increase or decrease, because everything fits together now, and all I have to do is get my posing routine down more perfect, which is almost impossible to do, you know. It's perfect already.

[einbert]

delta,
What I do to take advantage of this is, I work my forearms and biceps really hard right before a date/going out to party/whatever. Even sometimes just to go to the grocery store. It only takes a few minutes and it gives me a good feeling for a while, and makes me look better while I am out in public. In turn this makes me more confident and I believe more charismatic, so I think it is worth it.

That quote is [censored] incredible! I have to see that movie now.

[anklebreaker]

Coming day and night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHvWYAzIRo)

[einbert]

anklebreaker,
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Is he serious?

[Thremp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjG2s6UOaw

[einbert]

Also, it is a good motivator because if you continue to train hard and eat right, that is what you will look like eventually.

[Rearden]

SmileyEH... Solid reference

Other posters were correct; the pump should be looked at as a super short term benefit of lifting (I knew a guy that used to try to pump his shoulders before going out on a date... he was not usually successful) the pump should also be taken as "wow eventually if I do everything properly I can be this big 100% of the time"