You’re exercising hard, pushing yourself as far as you think you can go and then all of a sudden you hit something called the wall. What is the wall and what does it feel like?
I do a lot of different types of exercise but the one thing that consistently wipes me out is an all body class that I do once a week. During that class I end up in more pain than I do with any other exercise and it hasn’t got any better in the 5 months I’ve been doing it. The embarassing thing is I still struggle with some of the exercises, is this the wall?
I’m used to exercise and I’m used to pain. The feeling of my muscles burning up and that intense stinging sensation is nothing new, I don’t mind it. I can watch the other people in the class going through the same thing, their faces contort, their brows pour with sweat and they generally look like they are on their last legs. This is normal. I assume that my pain feels the same as their pain at this point.
It’s the next stage that gets me, the stage where my muscles physically can’t lift the weight. This isn’t a mental thing at all, it is a physical thing and my muscles can not do what I’m telling them. What this feels like is not a pain, in fact it’s much more numb than pain. Is this the sensation of the wall or was the wall the pain bit before hand? I really don’t know but what I have noticed is that the other people grimacing can carry on that bit longer, where as I can push myself to the point my legs won’t hold my weight others can shake it off in a few seconds and be fine.
Who is doing right here, is there a point before muscle fatigue where you are supposed to stop? Is going through the wall just about going through the pain barrier up to a point where you can still do an exercise correctly or is about exercising until collapse? I’d love somebody to be able to shed some light on this.
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