I did a lot of preparation ahead of time, and from previous dramatic injuries I am known as someone with
really high pain tolerance... However, I went past - term and needed to be induced, contractions were then constant and more painful than I could have imagined, dilation was fast, my perineum did not have much chance to stretch on its own, labor stalled when pushing should have begun, and I ended up with an epidural, pitocin to re-start contractions, and an emergency episiotomy.
Also, I have lowered the resistance on the
high - rep set even more, and I've found that I can even do 60 - 70 rep sets and end them on «true» concentric failure (which means that I
really can not lift the resistance another time, and it's not just lack of
pain tolerance or boredom compelling me to finsih the set).