Hi
I get sore when I do preacher curls with free weight, light weight 90 lbs with Olympic bar,
but no soreness from Nautilus multi bi using 100 each arm individually 12 reps each.
Is this common?
Maybe the free weight is loading your muscle more and more aggressively fatiguing your muscle fibers. The weight plates mean nothing in terms of the actual weight on a machine, that vary a lot from Machine to Machine.
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Dave
Thank you
So do you think I should abandon multi bi since I never feel sore the next day?
Not necessarily. Soreness isn’t everything, it could just be an indication. Are you progressing on the multi bicep machine? Are you getting more reps or weight every session with it?
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yes I am progressing on Multi bi.
Then I think you know the answer. Keep it in, keep eating, keep progressing. I would never tell you to stop doing something that’s working.
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Free weight preacher curls tend to be at their most challenging at the bottom, where the bicep is stretched. Machine preacher curls tend to have a more “even” challenge throughout the whole ROM.
Since exercises that are hardest in the bottom/stretched position tend to create greater muscle damage than exercises that aren’t, it’s not uncommon for those exercises to make you more sore. Hence, it makes sense why the free weight preachers would make you more sore than the machine.
To be clear, like @davemccright said, that doesn’t mean that machine curls aren’t an effective hypertrophy exercise, they just aren’t as likely to lead to DOMS
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DOMS is not an indicator to anything progress related so why does that matter?
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The two best ways I know to get sore are to try a new movement or to allow myself to get dehydrated during a session.
Or do retarded amount of sets and reps. When i was a kid, in my backwards country internet didnt work outside our own borders so we didnt know what exercises or machines did what so we just did like 60mins of the same exercise and next day we felt what muscles were worked.
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I have never stopped getting sore. I kind of enjoy the feeling, but all these years and I still get sore every session.
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I tend to use a pretty limited selection of exercises, especially for strength work, so I adapt pretty quickly and the soreness goes away. Even if I start programs walking like a Thunderbird puppet, I’m good to go a few sessions in. I also tend to drink a fair amount of water, which seems to do the job for me.
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I do too, usually a gallon-a gallon and a half a day. I’m not complaining about it, because I do like the feeling. When I was doing Fortitude Training, I did a million exercises for every body part, but since switching to Deep Water and then 5/3/1 in the fall, I’ve really only been doing Bench for chest and just squats for quads, for instance, and I get just as sore. I think a lot of this could be genetic factors that play into soreness.
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I specifically mean drinking during the workout. I drink a fair bit of water (/tea) outside the workout as well, because:British, but the liquid during the workout seems to be the key for me to stop DOMs.
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I find drinking Bushmills during a workout makes me work out harder.
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I find the same with Busch Light.
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Cool Whip anyone? Can it be liquidized for easy absorbtion? Seems to be the solution for any training related questions. You would never know how good it can be, unless you’ve tried it.
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I get sore only in a few muscles ONLY if i do something new, or different volume or intensity, for 1 session and then never again.
There are some muscle that i have never had sore at all.
I guess the most important point about this is that lactic acid metabolisation differences are NOT related to “gains”.
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