rescue, I'm also in SC. When you end-up in the hospital from those 96 sets per week(!), I'll come visit. Just kidding, but that is a lot to keep-up with long-term. You must like the burn.
bolt, I really like the burn sometimes, but I have to go to such great lengths to get it that I don't make progress from it. I usually try to avoid doing it often now. You guys might be different, but that's just me. However about once every three weeks, I will do a work-out super slow and feel it until my vision starts to narrow and darken. I don't know if it's effective, but it certainly seems like it should be. Also, once every few weeks, I'll also do high reps of Olympic lifts. That leaves me sore and burning. Again, I don't know if it's effective, but it is nice to make progress on the weights I'm lifting even if they are just from technique. Again, that's once every three weeks at the most with more time resting before working-out again. If you are fast at recovering (like from good genetics or from vitamin S), then obviously getting the burn more often would be appropriate.
bolt, every day sounds too harsh. I don't think you'll end-up much stronger for it. However, if your goal is to lose weight or train for SHTF, then you're probably doing the right thing. About injury, I've noticed that if I don't stop at the first slightest twinge of "bad" pain, I'll greatly regret it later. So, pay attention to the pain. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes you can just instinctually tell when something isn't right. When you're tired, you will do something wrong eventually. Also, if you're getting enough good sleep (I never have due to breathing problems) and not under a lot of stress the rest of the day, then you will be able to keep-up that pace longer. You getting enough sleep?
About forty years ago, I used to try to get the burn a couple of times a day. It seems insane now, but I didn't know better. I was watching guys on Dianabol (I think it was, I didn't ask them) or other tissue drugs, as we called them back then, make progress on doing 5 sets of each exercise [i]twice[/i] a day. I also heard a doctor say that the burn was from the muscles breaking down, and you couldn't get stronger without that feeling. We didn't know much back then. We also didn't drink that much water and worked-out outside in the sun, so dehydration probably made the burn worse. I learned quickly that my body's response to that is to store fat and shutdown my metabolism to weather the stress rather than to build-up.
[the burn] not in my lungs
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Agreed. I've never been able to handle the feeling very well of having someone step on my chest while running.
This summer I probably will feel that unpleasant lung burn a couple of times per week. I've decided to get back in good shape. I have to do that or buy all new pants[:)]. I'm a little over 240# at 5'8" now, and I want to lose about 25#. The summer before I turned 66, I went from 240# down to about 200#. I wasn't "abs showing" in shape, but I did have a 34" waist (which isn't bad at 200#). I want to be back in that shape, but I'm dreading it.z