Is there a way to know what causes our muscles to give up during exercise?
Usually my muscles give up during exercise, however i want to know whether it is caused by lack of energy or muscle damage, Is there a way to know what causes our muscles to give up during exercise? Is there a way to know if it is simply your running out of energy or it is caused by muscle damage like DOMS because you don't feel soreness right after exercise?
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DOMS is only relevant after exercise not during. youd know if you had DOMS;for instance, DOMS in your quads can make you walk like someone spent the night practicing kickboxing your legs and almost hurts like stretching a very tight muscle.. having DOMS is painful enough to where you probably arent going to workout that muscle in your next workout without some tiger balm or something.
to answer your question.. if youre not having a medical issue or condition causing this, then it could be one of the below:
diet:do you get enough nutrients, protein, carbs, etc to. fuel your workout?
workout plan isnt good->either youre overtraining, training on a workout plan thay was made for someone more advanced, not resting enough between muscle groups or workouts, not resting enough between sets, using too many reps which will cause lactic acid build up causing you to fatigue.
training to failure: the common workout advice is to train to fail, or make it where your muscle barely finishes the last rep on each set before failing. the downside to this is doing it early on your first couple sets will drastically fatigue you, making you not be able to finish your last set or fatigue you.
muscular endurance-> you might have weak muscular endurance.. you can workout in 12 to 15 or 15 to 20 rep schemes to build endurance whicb will cause your muacles to not fatigue as fast. you can also do century sets(read up on this) to build blood capillaries to flush your muscles and recover quicker.
You have to define "give up".
If you mean giving up because of a weight that is too heavy, it's
because your muscles don't have the capacity to create a contraction
strong enough to overcome the weight you are trying to move.
If you mean giving up because at some point you can't move the weight anymore that you were moving a few seconds ago, I believe you have to
distinguish two cases :
A heavy weight case. In this case, I believe you are giving up because your muscles can't create a strong enough contraction to move
that heavy weight. I don't know exactly how this works. Maybe it's
linked to the fact that you are mainly using fast twitch for heavy
weight and fast twitch rely on ATP stores that get quickly depleted
and thereby they can't contract anymore.
A moderate/low weight case. In this case, your muscles can't contract anymore because you are entering the same issue as above or
because your muscles become "asphyxiated". That would happen in the
case where your slow twitch muscles are working and you did so much
work that you started producing acidic compounds through the
non-oxygen metabolic pathway. At some point, those compounds prevent
the muscles from contracting and therefore you can't move the weight
anymore. This is the "burning sensation" that you might have already
felt.
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