Feeling adequately challened during but not after lifting?

threesixten

Anyone experience this? During lifting, the reps are difficult and increasingky so as reps go on. Then after w/o is complete i feel i could havechallenged myself more. Would you lift heavier next time? FWIW i am following fitness blender’s Burn program.

sardelsa

I feel like this a lot of the time. My programming is not super intense in each session, but overall looking at the whole week it adds up.

Keep in mind that pushing to failure and your body feeling annihilated does not equate with progress, and can actually be detrimental to some goals as well. If I felt drained and sore all the time, my following sessions would likely suffer and my progress would stall.

Lean59man

You need some type of progression in your program.

Chieflrg

Good programming should have the correct amount of stress to the muscles and amount of recovery to adapt.

I'm not fimilar with fitness blender burn but sounds like a more of a cardio circuit style based with some general fitness mixed in. Is this correct?

Asking what someone else would do might be a mistake as we don't know your goals or theirs.

For instance, my goal is to lift as heavy as possible for one rep on meet day not when training. So personally my decision is based on multiple factors not to disrupt my peaking towards that goal.