During covid my gym was either closed or open for 1-hour sessions per day for an entire year. Once my gym reopened with unlimited time I started my Spring cycle of 500mg/wk T with 30mg Anavar, 2 IUs of GH, BPC 157 at the ready for any pain, and enough anastrozole to keep my E2 mid range. I am pushing hard and experiencing a lot of DOM’s I would really like to hear about how other deal with or work thru their DOM’s. Anyone rich enough for deep tissue massages or Myers cocktail IV’s?
If I remember right you were doing a body part split. That tends to give guys a lot of DOMs. Perhaps switch that to upper lower or PPL and see how that goes.
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Taurine is recommended for DOMS.
Thanks. I have a really hard time finding exercises I connect with and at my age recovery is slower.
Nothing worse on chest day and you go home with your arms all pumped up and nothing in your pecs.
I am pretty sure my DOM’s is from the added strength and endurance my blast is giving me. The reason I am blasting in the first place. I have been upping the weight and sets.
I don’t think I am close to developing Rhabdomyolysis.
I was hoping some of you guys would offer suggestions on how you deal with your doms. Whiskey, women, whiskey and women. haha
I would say spread the exercises out like @galgenstrick recommended. You don’t need Doms to grow. You might even find you can do more hard sets this way. My back never gets Doms and I train it 4x per week. I don’t trash it any days though.
Would that be your spinal erectors, I never feel them or your lats and traps? I get a very good pump in both and 24-48 hours of DOMs
I have read you don’t need DOM’s to grow but If I get a good pump I get DOM’s the next morning. I don’t know how you guys are getting out of the gym with a good pump in the muscle group you worked and do not feel sore the next day. Maybe it age related. I am old as dirt.
I only deadlift once a week. I do stuff like rows and chin ups in every training day.
I’d focus on properly periodizing your training and getting in about 12-16 sets per muscle group per week split up between sessions. That should be optimal for growth. I’m not sure what your exact program looks like right now, I’m envisioning you pulverizing each muscle group once per week (correct me if I’m wrong).
If you’ll search that web address it had a pretty cool article. I just took a screenshot to have for cliff notes
Edit: I was being lazy, here you go:
https://ryanlefebvre.github.io/RP-Hypertrophy-Hub-Visualizer/#/
Click the “click here if you don’t understand” hyper link. Very interesting article/system. Idk if it’s legit, but it’s cool.
Let me give you an example from today.
Today is chest day so that is upper mid and lower pec. Need more upper pec so the focus is there first 15 minutes is on a stationary bike for basic cardio and just get my heart pumping.
Warmup: Shoulder warmup. 2-10# plates. 3- 16 reps Forward raise, side raises bent over back fly.
1st- sitting 25# plate Sven press 3-10 last 4 reps are 1/2 or partials to failure.
2nd- landmine press. 4-12 last 4 reps are 1/2 or partials to failure. Weight varies each week do to how I feel I let the last 4 reps determine the weight.
3rd- pec deck. 6 sets 8 to 12 reps My favorite exercise and replaces the flat bench. last 4 reps are 1/2 or partials to failure.
4th- Cable fly machine two positions high and low. This is my last exercise so I pretty much use lightweights and play to failure. No puking or dizziness just to failure.
In the infrared dry heat room I will flex and practice chest poses. I gauge how well the day went by the quality of the pump post flexing.
This is insane. This might be good for a 20 year old but not for someone who is 68.
That is doable when you fluff and pump only, with no intensity. I used to train bodyweight or with smaller weights at home for years and i used to start with 3 sets of each exercise and each week add 1 more set till i reach 6, then add weight and start from 3 again. Almost every day is full body and it is doable. Then i added a squat or deadlift here and there and it all went to shit 
Cuz you can either do 18 sets of hamstrings 3x a week or you can do 3 sets of squats once a week
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