Weight lifters feeling “pumped” is similarly literal. I get this from rock climbing more often than lifting, but after a particularly strenuous climb, your arm muscles feel inflated—they’re engorged with blood. It can take a minute for it to subside.
And here I was thinking it was a metaphor. Like, they feel literally inflated? If I’ve been climbing and I’m tired my muscles feel weak, but not inflated. I’ve never felt that way before.
Weight lifters feeling “pumped” is similarly literal. I get this from rock climbing more often than lifting, but after a particularly strenuous climb, your arm muscles feel inflated—they’re engorged with blood. It can take a minute for it to subside.
Wow I hadn’t even considered people not taking this literally
And here I was thinking it was a metaphor. Like, they feel literally inflated? If I’ve been climbing and I’m tired my muscles feel weak, but not inflated. I’ve never felt that way before.