burning out muscle after workout?

[madlib]

is it a good idea to burnout the muscle after a workout? like on chest days to finish the day off with pushups and like dips on tri days? thanks!

[vassille]

Originally Posted by madlib

is it a good idea to burnout the muscle after a workout? like on chest days to finish the day off with pushups and like dips on tri days? thanks!

From time to time why not! Sure, just don't do it too often. You will get a good pump though

[IronMax]

Im all for burning out and going to failure. Look at Dorian Yates. He did everything to failure and beyond at maximum amts of weight. But a lot of epople are going to tell you no and not all the time. Yeah you can do it as ur last exercises, but if u really want bomb away at ur muscles try somethign like this..
say on chest day u do all ur stuff for chest and ur on ur last exerices. (which should be something like cable flyes or db flyes) after u complete ur first set of whichever exercise you choose, immediately do pushups to failure(which shouldnt be more than ten and if it is, ur not working ur chest at all during the previous exercise) Do that for last 4 sets and ur chest will be bombed.
The same idea applies for when u do bicep curls and u strip the weights on the last set so u really do 6 or 7 internal sets but ur only counting it as a total of 4. Its a good way to bomb the muscles and make sure ur really hit them hard

[Sam_2005]

I dont see the point in 'burning out the muscle', if you mean by that fatiguing it, as this would be more harmful than good. I'm all for failure postives or negatives. Although I think you should go to failure without reducing the weight as this would surely serve no purpose in terms of stimualting growth.

[juggalo24]

I thought the whole purpose was to burnout the muscle to tear it down, so it can rebuild bigger. I like burning out my muslce, but the only bad thing is I can't hardly use that muscle for a couple of days

I usually do my workout and what ever workout I do last, I do my regular sets. Afterward I go down about 10 20 lbs and burnout.. and then 10 more and burnout... and then 10 more, until I'm down to 10 lbs and can only do about 10 reps of 10 lbs.

Yeah, I was going to post that about the pushups. I check to see how hard I worked my chest, by doing pushups, I usualy get to 8 and it's hurting, and I collapse.

[madlib]

thanks for all the information, ill keep it in mind

[dean]

burning out just means overloading it with lactic acid. that will get you endurance but not size. if size is what you're after, you have to reach failure on heavy weights at few reps.

[madlib]

good explanation dean thx =]