During the follow-a-long workout, you always say how much the muscle burns, but I never

experience the burn. My muscles seem to skip the burn and go straight to ache and then fatigue.

Is the burn a necessary part of metabolic stress? Am I still going to metabolic failure? Should I

do something different to get the burn, i.e. less weight or slower movement? That's a really

good question. And I guess it all comes down to

what you mean, Celeste, by burn. So what I describe as burning, you may describe as ache. So whenever

you're saying, you know, your muscles ache, that may be what burning is for you. I guess

for me, whenever I'm doing these workouts, I'm not used to this

lactic acid buildup and sensation in my muscles. Like, I'm not used to it at all. Because whenever you

train in the gym, how I used to, which was with high intensity training. So full stretch, full squeeze,

high mechanical stress. Whenever you train that way in the gym, you don't feel any burden on your muscles

whatsoever. Like there is absolutely no, there's no sensation in your muscles at all. You just

suddenly get fatigued and then just fail. But whenever you are training with metabolic stress,

because we are working in volume with lower weights,

then you could possibly lift, you know, doing lower reps in the gym. What happens is the muscle

starts to build up lactic acid and that lactic acid causes a, causes a sensation in the muscle.

Now, that sensation I describe as burning, but it could be, and, you know, if you ask me, is it

burning or is it aching? I could say, well, yes, an ache is, you know, I guess what it would be

as well. It doesn't really matter what the sensation is. I guess we're going to feel it in

different ways. We're going to feel it in different areas. We're going to feel it as different

sensation. The most important thing really is that you are reaching failure as much as you can.

Like with, you're choosing a weight that at the end of each set, certainly at the end of say

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