I’ve been trying a new approach lately (past couple months). For whatever workout I’m doing on a certain day, I start it with one exercise that hits the muscle group I did the day before.
So, for example, if it’s back day and yesterday was chest day, I will start the workout with pushups or cable flyes or something. Or I’ll start with lat pulldowns. Or I’ll go to the track and do a lap of walking bodyweight lunges.
I’ve noticed that this extra push of blood into the sore muscle area helps with recovery a lot, without necessarilly breaking the sore muscle down even more.
I thought that maybe getting blood back to that muscle group would help. Does anybody think this is crazy?