its just a quick question but last week i started the Chad Waterbury total body workout and i was sore throughout the whole week, im guessing cause i wasn’t used to it. but after yesterdays workout, i feel no soreness today. is this cause my body is getting used to the workout or should i be sore? i did raise the weight in each exercise like the plan said.
thanks guys
No, not for everyone.
Just because you raised the weight doesn’t mean anything. To what intensity were you working out at? Was the weight enough to where you almost didn’t make the set? How much did you dick around between sets?
Raising the weight is pretty much all that matters. That’s how you quantify progress.
You could be sore as hell after every workout and never make any strength or size gains. That’s bad.
You could also PR every workout and rarely be sore. That’s good. Defiantly better than the first scenario.
There are a lot of guys who don’t feel like they’ve gotten a good workout unless it inflicts great pain upon them and makes them sore for the next 3 or 4 days. That’s their one goal. These guys typically never write anything down. They just bomb themselves with forced reps on the Bench Press, a bunch of run-the-rack drop sets on curls, and other training techniques that can give you a serious ‘burn’ but don’t allow you to record a precise number to indicate if you’ve gotten any stronger.
A lot of times you will see these guys and notice that they use the same gooddamn weights every time. They get the job done, after all. But the weight on the bar and the body lifting the weight looks the same month after month, year after year.
If I Deadlift 475X20 my next Deadlift workout, I don’t give 2 shits if I’m sore the next day or not. Nor do I care if I took 10 minutes of rest in between each warm-up set. I don’t even care if it’s easy as shit. That will still be a huge PR for me and I’ll know for a fact that I made progress.
Circumference Measurements of the body. How you look in the mirror. Bodyweight. How strong you are. These are very concrete ways to evaluate progress. Soreness is not necessary.
I never get sore with upper body workouts, except when I first began weightlifting.
It doesn’t affect anything in terms of growth or strength, though I do use it as a guide. If I have a little soreness after a workout, I generally try to repeat whatever excercise/rep/set scheme that caused it.
But it never last for more than 2-3 sessions before my body adapts and is no longer sore.
I trained as hard as i ever had and progressed in both strength and size as good as ever and experienced little to no soreness the entire year.
I just began training again after a 3.5 month inability to train [travel] and I’m now core from some low weight, low volume sessions. It’s all work capacity and muscel/CNS adaptation.
-chris
I’ve found that I mostly get sore from doing a new exercise. My Squat has been progressing pretty well, but my legs haven’t been very sore at all, despite going up in weight every workout. The other day I did a leg day without the squat, and my legs have not been this sore in months. They are so sore I can barely walk, it is unbelievable.
But I know that the weights involved were less than what I can squat, the reps were probably greater, but the primary culprit, as best as I can tell, is the newness of the movements.
The only exercise that consistently makes me sore is the deadlift.
that one will do it
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The only exercise that consistently makes me sore is the deadlift. [/quote]
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deadlift? you must be doing more than 3 reps.
deadlift never makes me sore unless i do some dumb shit like “duhh, hey guys, lets see how many times we can pull 100kg!”
after you get upwards of 30 you start to realize you can always pull it once more with less than 1 second on the ground. then you cant even move the next day.
but stick to less than 3 and you’ll never be sore again! tired and “drained” yes, sore no.
-chris
[quote]Avocado wrote:
deadlift? you must be doing more than 3 reps.
deadlift never makes me sore unless i do some dumb shit like “duhh, hey guys, lets see how many times we can pull 100kg!”
after you get upwards of 30 you start to realize you can always pull it once more with less than 1 second on the ground. then you cant even move the next day.
but stick to less than 3 and you’ll never be sore again! tired and “drained” yes, sore no.
-chris[/quote]
Are you on Crack?
If I max out on Conventional Deadlifts or Rack Deadlifts I sometimes get sore for at least 4 days.
A.J. Roberts has said that it sometimes takes him an entire week to recover from heavy deadlifts.
your mileage may vary but i need to feel DOMS 24-48 hours later or my lifting numbers don’t go up in time
[quote]cyph31 wrote:
your mileage may vary but i need to feel DOMS 24-48 hours later or my lifting numbers don’t go up in time[/quote]
Then you sir have a psychological dependence on soreness. Most people dont need soreness to progress. If you need soreness, then I feel sorry for you. Soreness IS NOT and indicator of progression.
Increasing weights or reps is. If soreness meant becoming bigger or stronger, than accident victims would have the biggest and strongest muscles.
[quote]forbes wrote:
cyph31 wrote:
your mileage may vary but i need to feel DOMS 24-48 hours later or my lifting numbers don’t go up in time
Then you sir have a psychological dependence on soreness. Most people dont need soreness to progress. If you need soreness, then I feel sorry for you. Soreness IS NOT and indicator of progression.
Increasing weights or reps is. If soreness meant becoming bigger or stronger, than accident victims would have the biggest and strongest muscles. [/quote]
I think it just sounds like he knows how his body responds.