Muscle 'pump' vs muscle development?

[Old Duffer]

Physiological question for you educated folks: given we know what causes 'da pump' , during an intense workout (and I'm learning its more intense depending on the supps taken), does a big or even debilitating muscle pump lend to better muscle growth?

Or does a debilitating pump, which might actually cut short a workout, hinder muscle growth?

Educate me please

 

[soldier74]

from what I understand the pump come more from things like occlusion, the muscle being deprived of blood during a set.Then after the set blood rushes into the muscle causing the pump. Also I do believe the pump is good for muscle growth as it will stretch the facia allowing the muscle to grow given proper diet and rest

 

[Old Duffer]

Sure, I was thinking the cell stretch was a good thing and the extra blood carries nutrients and I've just assumed that a good pump means a good workout means better growth.....

But if you grow while you rest, the pump is gone by then. Hmmmm. The cell stretch would still be in effect, but that excess blood will have subsided?

.... or does the pump trigger a stronger CNS response?

 

[Primoballin]

I don't sweat the petty stuff. I just pet the sweaty stuff.

I don't believe a pump or lack of makes or breaks a workout. Just as s sore muscle isn't a prerequisite to growth

 

[Old Duffer]

Just my brain twirling when I'm bored at work ;-). Lol

 

[fitguy22]

i thought it was due to the increase in blood flow to the muscles being used?

 

[oldmusclemike]

A pump is exactly that, a pump. I don't know the tech part but it is the fluids filling the muscle and has nothing to do with growth.

You can break down the muscle fibers and have them repair...hence growth and not have a pump to a large degree. It is a benefit to growth to add the sets that promote the pump at the end of your sets because it puts blood etc.. in the muscle for it's recovery n development food so to speak.

Ya know I can do one set and pump myself up but that has nothing to do with overload and the breaking down of tissue and the following repair as we rest.

There is a workout routine in that you build the muscle pump, full and then follow your ordinary routine subsequently during that session. Theory is to load up with the blood and nutrients before the break down.

When we get that pump, the big pump we think we have done much,,much more. But depending on how we achieve that pump is whether or not we've done more or a better workout.

I do a pump thing a lot for my psych after my sets are over.

My 2 cents

 

[blakey]

I don't know how anybody can workout and not get a pump even if im lifting low and heavy i still get pumped .
Now i do disagree to a point of course breaking down the muscle is needed to re build it for growth to happen but i think a pump is necessary for this all to happen just all the blood and nutrients being forced into the muscle group must help to some degree with stretching the fascia ect they must go hand in hand pump and growth? Im not an expert but there must be some link . I know a guy over here an ex power lifter that competed in power lifting at a fairly high level Commonwealth games and junior Olympics he trains one muscle group one day heavy and low then the next day same group with light and high and he swears by this method

 

[Old Duffer]

I've been on a blast where a strong pump was elusive. This current blast tho is like insta-pump! My bicep pumped to pain just holding my cell phone convo this evening. I'm still stretching da bitch out!

 

[blakey]

I've been on a blast where a strong pump was elusive. This current blast tho is like insta-pump! My bicep pumped to pain just holding my cell phone convo this evening. I'm still stretching da bitch out!

******no drug talk allowed****

 

[appleton111]

.... or does the pump trigger a stronger CNS response?

good point.