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11-18-2013, 02:12 PM #1
What is your favorite gym pump?
Okay, so yesterday I hit a heavy chest session after church and had to rush home to shower up before heading to a friend's to watch some football. I was just really happy with the pump. I do a variety of workout styles (one week is high volume, one week is high intensity, and one is just purely heavy weight) and obviously get a good pump from any of my volume workouts, but was just overly enjoying the pump from the heavy chest session.
It had me re-thinking back to some previous times and what my favorite gym pump comes from. I think anytime you do full body or combined workouts, you get the best of all worlds, so let's not factor those in (because who doesn't like to just get every muscle in their body pumped up? lol).
In the past, I'd always said arms. There's just something about having your biceps and triceps fully pumped. Delts and traps is fun, too, because the boulder shoulders just look awesome. Legs obviously have their place in this, too. And back can be awesome because you just feel SO wide.
But I think for me, it's now chest. I generally don't care too much about training chest, either. I do it, like all muscle groups, but don't really enjoy it. But along with the obvious chest pump, your delts get some action, as well as your tris from all of the pressing and then your bis get a little hit from crossovers.
So I've not concluded that the pump from a chest workout is my favorite.
What is yours? And why?
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11-18-2013, 03:51 PM #2
I love them all but lately i have been loving Arms and Legs like crazy. Chest is always a huge pump for me, and back has been better since i started to really learn how to squeeze and feel my back more. Shoulders also is always a good pump.
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11-18-2013, 06:43 PM #3
You can get a pump in other than your arms?
Confucius say...
A ripped guy who eats a pizza, then does an hour of cardio is still ripped.
A fat guy who eats a pizza, then does an hour of cardio is still fat.
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11-26-2013, 04:44 PM #4
Haha I know, right?
I actually, ironically enough, had an amazing arm pump last night. It was my volume week so plan was 3 lifts for biceps and 3 more for triceps, each at 4 sets of 25. Got through the first 200 reps of biceps and was feeling horrible (wasn't able to sleep the night before, was up til 8 AM and then slept for 5 hours, ate once, and went to lift). On top of the feeling like I hadn't eaten enough, I was getting the chills. It was awful.
I had to go back and grab my hoody (thick, heavy NTBM hoody) and stocking cap and then go back to lifting. I normally despise sweating lol, so I'm usually wearing as little and as light as possible to lift (cut-offs and shorts), so this was a first.
Decided to jump straight to tricep bar pushdowns on the cable and go through all 4 sets and had to leave because I was still shivering. No clue what was wrong, but even though I only hit half my total anticipated reps for the night, I had an insane arm pump -- one of the best I remember.
I'm still not as lean as I want to be (down 60+ pounds since June), but still had the brachial veins showing up in my arms, which are still pretty large, so that was enjoyable.
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11-26-2013, 10:54 PM #5
With me, it's the back. Crazy pump thru out the day; love the fact that my shirt' s tighter after my workout. Btw, after church, the only workout i do entail curls, cheese curls that is lol
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11-26-2013, 11:34 PM #6
Legs for me! Absolutely love the feeling....cant bend em to sit down or pick something up...amazing feeling
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11-27-2013, 12:25 AM #7
What is your favorite gym pump?
Back or arms are my fav! Who doesn't like not being able to scratch the back of their neck from a pump?
Last edited by Hoss06; 11-27-2013 at 12:26 AM.
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12-06-2014, 08:09 AM #8
My Tri's always give me a great pump. Unfortunately my tris always seem to be a lagging bodypart for me, so the pump is deceiving.
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