What is your favorite gym pump?

[MidwestBeast]

Okay, so yesterday I hit a heavy chest session after church and had to rush home to shower up before heading to a friend's to watch some football. I was just really happy with the pump. I do a variety of workout styles (one week is high volume, one week is high intensity, and one is just purely heavy weight) and obviously get a good pump from any of my volume workouts, but was just overly enjoying the pump from the heavy chest session.

It had me re-thinking back to some previous times and what my favorite gym pump comes from. I think anytime you do full body or combined workouts, you get the best of all worlds, so let's not factor those in (because who doesn't like to just get every muscle in their body pumped up? lol).

In the past, I'd always said arms. There's just something about having your biceps and triceps fully pumped. Delts and traps is fun, too, because the boulder shoulders just look awesome. Legs obviously have their place in this, too. And back can be awesome because you just feel SO wide.

But I think for me, it's now chest. I generally don't care too much about training chest, either. I do it, like all muscle groups, but don't really enjoy it. But along with the obvious chest pump, your delts get some action, as well as your tris from all of the pressing and then your bis get a little hit from crossovers.

So I've not concluded that the pump from a chest workout is my favorite.

What is yours? And why?

 

[bonacris]

Shoulders and traps.. when all three delt heads are filled with blood there is nothing like the looks people give you.. combine that with a smallish waist and ita even better.. you feel like you can fill xxl shirts.

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[MidwestBeast]

Shoulders and traps.. when all three delt heads are filled with blood there is nothing like the looks people give you.. combine that with a smallish waist and ita even better.. you feel like you can fill xxl shirts.

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Definitely agree, man. For a while, that was definitely my favorite. I just love chest, now, because my delts still get a nice pump from the incline press, so I'm just getting greedy about having multiple muscles all getting nice and pumped, haha.

 

[Evan Tipps]

Back and side/rear delt pumps

 

[bonacris]

Definitely agree, man. For a while, that was definitely my favorite. I just love chest, now, because my delts still get a nice pump from the incline press, so I'm just getting greedy about having multiple muscles all getting nice and pumped, haha.

I know what your saying about multiple muscle pumps.. kinda want to doba quick set of everything just to have every muscle pumped at once. The pump is addictive.

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[RickRock13]

Nothing beats a good bicep/tricep pump in my book. I love to see my arms enlarge and my veins come alive.

 

[noltonr]

Chest, shoulder and tricep pumps just feel soo good.

 

[Creepusmaximus]

My best pumps are in a about an 8 inch long appendage. Just saying, veins really show up when it's pumped up.

 

[bonacris]

My best pumps are in a about an 8 inch long appendage. Just saying, veins really show up when it's pumped up.

Your dick is only 8 inches long.. pfff you're practicality a girl with a cock thst small

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[MidwestBeast]

Nothing beats a good bicep/tricep pump in my book. I love to see my arms enlarge and my veins come alive.

That one had long been my favorite, because I love watching my t-shirt sleeves not fit over the pump and the slightest turn showing some nice striations. But I've become greedy and my chest workouts don't get my arms near as pumped as bi/tri day, but they still hit them, so my chest day is the ultimate "this shirt won't fit" day lol.

 

[Creepusmaximus]

Your dick is only 8 inches long.. pfff you're practicality a girl with a cock thst small

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I got a lot of width so I'm not worried.

 

[MidwestBeast]

bump for more non-phallic pump talk

 

[hondasrule267]

I can't even decide haha.......I love the way my shoulders and traps look when they're pumped for sure.......and I love the way my chest feels when it's all full of blood. And who doesn't love moving around big weights with your legs??????

 

[zazen5]

The best feeling is a personal best for new amount of weight lifted. This happened recently on bench press, repping 265. It has also happened on the olympic lift for snatch. I really like this lift because it is so technical. Although Im reasonably strong, can rep 295 on barbell rows and rep 400 on deadlifts, my coordination is lacking on the snatch lifts. So what Im doing is working with 75 lbs and my technique and timing is improving. This lift among all the lifts I think is the most fun. It's challenging timing the second pull to the drop under the bar and the heartrate skyrocketing is exciting.

 

[MaxxReps]

Shoulders. That and arms are the ones that don't matter how much bodyfat I have at the time I can still see veins and striations. so wish my shoulders always looked like that.

 

[TrueLiberal]

I find a lat pump the most satisfying. It took me years to figure out how to get one and it is a relatively new sensation, so that may be part of the appeal.