How do you know if you're pushing yourself enough?

how do you know if you're pushing yourself enough?

you see progress

if you don't know then you're not pushing yourself enough. anyone doing a sufficiently hard routine will sometimes find themselves in the situation where progress stalls or goes backwards because you did too much work. obviously you want to avoid this, but it will happen from time to time anyway.

is it a fine line between pushing yourself to the limits and pushing yourself too much which may result in damage or counter productive exercise?

Or you feel muscle pains. I usually train to get gainz after they get sore, works every time...

thats where my curiosity stems from. i dont want to do too much or too little just to lose progress. but i guess its an instinct after sometime.

Does anyone else get tunnel vision on the last squat on the last set?

as a beginner the line is not very fine at all. as an intermediate you'll start to experience it, and the more advanced you get, the finer the line becomes.

as an intermediate it's probably more likely that you're underrecovered than overworked, though. insufficient diet, lack of sleep or other stupid, avoidable shit will make you stall. it's only when you're sure you've fixed all those things that you can start talking about pushing yourself too hard.

in what way?

thanks, this is enlightening