Would This Be Wise Or A Ridiculous Idea

[Wayne]

Okay, so I'm a keen weightlifter but when weightlifting I always find that I have the heart and strength to lift a few extra reps when lifting weights but for some reason my body lets me down, obviously because it needs a rest. Would it be wise to apply some numbing cream onto my bicep muscles and around the elbow part of my arm during bicep curling to increase the number of reps I do? Or would this in the long run cause me pain after the numbness has worn off? I don't mean applying loads of numbing cream and doing about 500 bicep curls since that would be stupid. Feedback would be appreciated. Thank-you in advance.

[Nemo]

id leave it to ur body, dont wanna start adding stuff that'll tire it out so much. Its telling you something, stop!

[Wayne]

Yeah, sound advice. Thanks. :)

[mangle]

I wouldnt say deffo do it. Overtraining is a bad thing, large risk of injuring yourself.

[Brody]

id say in the long run its not worth it
as ur blocking out the signals ofur brain saying its tired and needs rest
so id advice against it

[Wayne]

Thanks Poojie. :) Nice to see you're from Notts too. ;P Also, cheers Brody, I see where you're coming from. :P

[mangle]

AKA The Wild West of The UK
AKA Shotts
AKA Gun City

The list goes on, but yeah you're best off doing as much as humanly possible :)

[Wayne]

Yeah, thanks again. ;)

[Excellent]

No no no no NO! This is a very bad and silly idea, once you cannot lift any more weight you can't - full stop. You're pushing and ignoring your body if you do this which will prove to be very dangerous and the outcome won't be good.

You can easily pull a muscle or even bruise one then you won't be able to weightlift for a while.

[iMegz.]

I'd say no. Your body begins to start feel that way to tell you that you need a rest, if you were to add numbing cream the chances are that you'll increase your risk of injury and will be in a lot more pain. I'd say leave your body as it is and take the rest when it tells you too. :)

[Wayne]

Thanks Excellent and Megz for your advice. :)

[Misawa]

A very bad idea. Of course, you have to push yourself when training, but numbing the areas your working on is extremely dangerous, you will just completely overwork yourself without even realising to the full extent, and doing some serious damage to your corpse. Yes, I like to call living bodies corpses.

[xander]

Now there's a difference between "over-training" and pumping to failure. By over-training you are not giving yourself enough rest between gym session as such, and pumping to failure seems to be what you're doing. I personally only pump to failure one week of every month, not every session in a month.
How many reps/sets and with what weight are you doing for each weightlifting exercise? Because I personally find pumping to failure good to do once in a while (such as 1 week out of 4) and it personally works better for me. I only have 1-2 proper rest days a week though and if I was pumping to complete failure I'd probably change that to 3-4 days.

[Danzilla]

No, bad idea. Your strain your mussles and damage them more then build them. :P
Sorry if its been said.

[Jaiisun]

I think that pain is your body's way of saying "STOP!!" - therefore, numbing cream would go against your body and would cause you undue pain when the cream wears off.

Just doing the number of reps your body allows you is alot safer and, although it'll take a little bit longer), you'll save yourself from excess pain.

;].
Jay x

[xander]

I think that pain is your body's way of saying "STOP!!" - therefore, numbing cream would go against your body and would cause you undue pain when the cream wears off.

Just doing the number of reps your body allows you is alot safer and, although it'll take a little bit longer), you'll save yourself from excess pain.

;].
Jay x

I see where you're coming from but I think you're wrong. Pain being the body's way of saying stop? I don't think so. If athletes who train upto 5 times a week push themselves in their event and suddenly they get a stitch or something should they stop? Or should they continue to push themselves to win? They should do the latter. If sports-people such as Paula Radcliffe, Lewis Hamilton, Jamie Carragher and most athletes gave up when they felt a bit of pain then they wouldn't be where they are today.

It depends how much of a rest period you are going to give yourself before doing it again, how long is your rest period between doing weights on each muscle group?

[Captain]

There's a reason you can't lift anymore weights, to protect yourself from injuring yourself :)

I strongly advise you not to do it ;)