Would This Be Wise Or A Ridiculous Idea

[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.
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