Training to failure is a waste. You can make the same gains training much easier.
I'm not sure what you mean by "a waste". You don't think there is any benefit at all? At my age, I don't expect to make "gains". What kind of gains have you made in the last year? What I consider a waste is the countless hours people spend in the gym every day with very little to no results. I train just twice a week for barely an hour. I have a lot of time out of the gym to rest and do other things in life.
Sounds like you sent your central nervous system into shock
Maybe depleted carb stores also.
You’ve rested & your cns has recovered from that state allowing you to eat & you’re already feeling
Much improved from where you were.
Training in that manner is brutally hard on your cns let alone mentally & physically
I doubt there are very many who are capable of training / pushing themselves that hard.
I don’t see it as wrong - That’s how you train on a regular basis mentally you’re prepared
And able to push yourself physically that hard.
Taking someone who does multi sets / multi reps pumping style & even attempting to get
Them to do a similar workout would very likely put them off ever training again.
And there attempt would fall far short of your exertion level as they’d not be able to physically
Let alone mentally challeng themselves to the same degree.
It work for you & you enjoy it - that good.
Weather it’s necessary to go that limit for muscular growth is an entirely different subject.
If you are “Natural” & “Drug free” increasing rest days between workouts may be of benefit
Though reading you I’ve no doubt you’ve already considered/ tried this.
I still haven't recovered from Thanksgiving and have been eating cookies, ice-cream, doughnuts, brownies... That's why I have to avoid sugar. Once I start I'm like an addict. So I was -- am -- pretty carbed up.
I'm not sure if it is the optimal way to stimulate muscle hypertrophy. I mean, other than Dorian, all the top of the top bbers in history trained in the traditional multi-set volume type approach.
I prefer this type of approach because I also want to develop and maintain some mental and physical toughness. Being accustom to pushing myself and have my body conditioned for physical exertion.
And I don't consider myself natural as I've been on TRT for the last 15 years. But I have no reverence for the concept of natural. Very little of what we do and have is "natural."
I did HIT training until about age 35 and then scaled back the intensity while still doing lower volume and it made no difference in muscle size plus I have more energy and enjoy training more. One reason people quit training when they get older is they don't enjoy it and if your workout are brutal all the time you probably won't enjoy it. Look at all the HIT guys who were injured or just quit early. I'm reading a book on Arthur Jones now and he would go years between workouts because if he couldn't go all out he couldn't train at all.
It's true, intense training, or any kind of training for that matter, is something not many keep up with their entire lives. When I think of the original gang that I hung with back in the day there is only one other guy that still keeps it up. Because I don't train every day and do take a week break every three months or so I don't really get burnt out. As I mentioned before, I've been training consistently with weights for over 46 years so it's just part of my life and I would feel a big void if I just quit altogether.
I can relate to Jones. If I don't push myself I rather just stay home and take a break. Why waste my time just going through the motions. My mentality when doing a set is that once I reach positive failure, when I can't do another strict rep, I say to myself, "And now it begins." Meaning now we get serious this when it counts.
He just suffered an adverse reaction to his workout on that occasion likely a few factors
Caused it - He’s not saying this is a regular occurrence after train if it is then that’s cause
For concern or should be for Him.
Yes, this is not a common occurrence. The last time it happened when I got sick was maybe about 8 years ago after my first work set which again was legs. Back then I was more focused on progression and was stuck at a certain weight for a certain number of reps. This time I was determined to break that plateau. I was psyching myself up all week for that set. It was squats done on a Smith Machine for safety reasons so if I got stuck I could just rack it. But I approach that bar with a do or die attitude. I was going to get those reps no matter what.
I did barely get that extra damn rep but after I racked it I felt so light headed and dizzy and had to lay flat on the ground for about five minutes until someone asked me if I was all right. I said I was just being lazy and got up but could barely walk to the corner where I just sat there for about a half an hour before I felt I could drive back home safely.
Other than that and yesterday I never really got sick from training. I've gotten pretty exhausted where I had to sit down to get my breath but not sick.
All joking aside, that BP is low enough to warrant a trip to the ER. You should go to the hospital.
On a side note, I'm highly surprised Coach didn't advise you to eat some cereal.
I'm fine now. Everything is back to normal. BP at 115/80.