Hello everybody! This is my first time posting on the forum, so hopefully all goes well! I'm going to start off with a little bit about myself before I continue on with my questions. My name is Chase and I am 16 years old. I have been lifting since 6th grade on and off, but have started to get a lot more serious about lifting. It is something I really enjoy, but only if I know that I am making progress and I SLIGHTY know what is going on with my workouts. I hate being confused with figuring out the most perfect form, so I often spend a lot of my time looking up videos to make sure that I am doing all of my exercises properly.
Today I started my first workout in the Push, Pull, Legs 12 week transformation challenge. I skipped right ahead to month 2 because I consider myself not QUITE a beginner and I felt like I was ready to go right away. I felt like I was getting a really great pump near the start of the workout with the barbell pin-press. Unfortunately, I felt as if my pump gradually started to slip and by the end of the workout I didn't feel much and I just didn't have any drive in me. I was still very tired, but I barely broke a sweat and I felt like I worked extremely hard. Is it possible that I just don't sweat much? I had a gallon of water today and felt like I ate very healthy. I should add though that I had 5 pieces of all meat pizza, but that was 3 - 4 hours prior to my workout. I figure pizza is not that good for you, but it really helped me intake a lot of protein, carbs, and fat. Could that be the reason that I felt like crap during my workout? I ran about 10 minutes prior to the start of my workout and I could definitely feel the pizza when I ran, but I felt a lot better after my run, so I thought I had got rid of that problem. Finally my last comment is that I had to continually make sure that I was doing my workout correctly which definitely made it hard to keep my rest times to 30 to 60 seconds. Should I make sure that I have my workout memorized before I go into the weight room?
I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read this and wants to help me become a better lifter. I really want to work hard in the weight room, but it just feels hard sometimes when I am not achieving the pump I desire, and I am not sweating, even though I FEEL like I am working my tail off. Once again, THANK YOU to anyone who reads and/or replies to this giving me you advice. It means a lot. Hope everyone has a wonderful night/day!