is giving a 100% effort good?

[ROOKIE OF THE YEAR]

I heard a lot of people saying that everytime working out, lifting, or training martial art with 100% or more everytime is a really good thing. It will toughen you up.

But my mom's friend son died of exhaution from working out in the gym. Now I'm not sure I want to be in martial art training or not, since I feel exhausted and it just no cruise.


So is giving a 100% or more everytime doing these things a good thing? Is weight-lifting rountines are suppose to be like this in the first place anyway?

 

[oakraiderz2]

Is dying from exhaustion possible?? Dehydration i can understand obviously, but how do you get exhausted and die?

 

[Playastyle]

It's good to give 100%, if your power output stays high. As soon as you reach a rep which is slower then when you start out, you should stop the set and rest. If you do that, or worse, train to failure, that's how injuries can occur.

 

[DJDamage]

Originally posted by ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
So is giving a 100% or more everytime doing these things a good thing? Is weight-lifting rountines are suppose to be like this in the first place anyway?

Listen to your body, if you can give 100% then give 100% if not then not. If you feel dizzy,overally fatigue or sick when you are giving 100% then its a signal that you are doing something wrong. Also get a yearly physical check by a doctor to determined if everything in your system is good to go.

 

[diablo]

H&F...

Originally posted by ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
But my mom's friend son died of exhaution from working out in the gym. Now I'm not sure I want to be in martial art training or not, since I feel exhausted and it just no cruise.

A 28-year-old South Korean man collapsed and died of exhaustion after playing a computer game almost non-stop for 50 hours.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1729573,00.html

You may as well quit using the computer too, since that guy died from exhaustion using it.

Of course going to the gym "isn't a cruise". It's not supposed to be easy - if it was do you think the US would have so many obese people? The only reason you shouldn't go into the gym is because you're too lazy, and to unwilling to change your physique. Your mom's friend's son was a freak accident - in order to die from exhaustion he'd have to have worked harder than the inmates of the Stutthof Death Camp on a forced march after 5 years of imprisonment in a Nazi facility before it was liberated on May 9, 1945. Maybe it's me, but I just can't see you working that hard. I can't see myself doing it either. Basically, hush and go to the gym - it won't kill you unless you're an idiot about it and ignore what your body is telling you... there's a difference between good pain and bad pain.

By the way, the thread you had in H&F under the same name (http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83569) was deleted. If you crosspost again both threads will be deleted entirely instead of simply moved to the proper section of the forum. Thanks for following forum rules.

 

[tyciol]

Are you asking if training to failure is good?

That's something still debated.

I personally would stop just short of failure. If for no other reason that I don't want to be totally defenseless if I have to defend myself on the walk home or lift a box or if I have something else I train in besides weightlifting.