Pumping and burning of muscles during training.

"Pumping" and "burning" (or "burning" muscles) is a popular jargon between people who often visit the gym and bodybuilders. These phenomena occur during training and affect how the muscles feel. When you train hard, especially when training "to the hilt", you may notice the following sensations:

* Burning sensation – a burning sensation in the muscles during training

* Pumping – swelling or swelling of the muscles during or after trainingMuscle burning sensation

First there is a burning sensation in the muscles, as this is the first thing that you can feel on yourself when you approach your load limit or the limit of weight that you can lift. However, more repetitions, but with less weight, can also cause a burning sensation. It occurs when your muscles enter the anaerobic zone.

Anaerobic exercise

Anaerobic means "without oxygen", but in the physiology of exercise, this means that the body does not meet the need for oxygen for the muscles. When the body enters the anaerobic zone, the amount of acid and the production of hydrogen ions increases, and you feel a burning sensation when exposed to nerve cells and receptors. Oxygen becomes insufficient to compensate for the reactions that occur.

Previously, it was believed that burning in the muscles occurs due to lactic acid, because it is produced in these conditions. But now it has become clear that the production of lactic acid is an auxiliary reaction, an attempt to displace hydrogen ions from the muscles.

Training helps your muscles to cope with such a load and an increase in acid, and therefore athletes should train under such conditions. Bodybuilders use muscle burning to build muscle.

Lactic acid helps to increase the muscles.

A popular myth about this phenomenon is that this burning sensation supposedly burns fat. The weakest muscles are the first to experience a burning sensation, so if you feel a burning sensation, it does not necessarily mean that you are burning fat.

Feeling of fullness in the muscles (pumping)

This phenomenon is also called a "pump", since the muscles seem to have been pumped with a pump. After performing a heavy workout, we can feel the" fullness " of the muscles – they visually increase and become denser.

This swelling is caused by the fact that blood plasma fills the space in the muscles during contraction. This condition of the muscles continues for about 30 minutes after the end of the workout. Bodybuilders successfully use this as a trick to give a better shape to their muscles and improve the assessment of musculature at shows or competitions.

Fullness of the muscles after training does not have a harmful effect on health; however, you need to maintain a normal supply of glycogen (glucose) and water to ensure a good pumping. Low-carb diets are not suitable in this case.

If you want to show off your results in a set of muscles, you can use pumping to get a higher score.