Curiosity out of newbie's head

[tonyeua]

That's exactly what I was thinking you shouldn't be sore for longer then two days if you are an experienced lifter three at most.

My chest is what takes the longest. The rest will be back to normal in 48 hrs tops.

 

[Bigdogmikey]

72 hrs is enough rest for a muscule group

 

[Bigdogmikey]

That's exactly what I was thinking you shouldn't be sore for longer then two days if you are an experienced lifter three at most.

When you change a workout and routene that can happen, ive been sore for 4 days recently

 

[JoNeS]

Maybe your doing too many working sets. I do 4 different exercises of 4 sets each for each muscle. (1 warm up set, then 3 sets of each till failure)...So no more than 16 sets per muscle. And I do a 2 day on 1 day off routine, and my recovery is spot on.

Also, not sure what your doing right now, but don't train more than 2 muscles in one day.

And finally I've noticed that when I'm on recovery speeds up a tad, but just listen to your body, if you feel good and strong then hit it a day early, if not take a day off......

 

[tonyeua]

Maybe your doing too many working sets. I do 4 different exercises of 4 sets each for each muscle. (1 warm up set, then 3 sets of each till failure)...So no more than 16 sets per muscle. And I do a 2 day on 1 day off routine, and my recovery is spot on.

Also, not sure what your doing right now, but don't train more than 2 muscles in one day.

And finally I've noticed that when I'm on recovery speeds up a tad, but just listen to your body, if you feel good and strong then hit it a day early, if not take a day off......

that could be it. I do up to 5 sets for each excercise on chest day and I do

Dumbbell flyes
Flat barbell
Incline barbell
Decline machine
Cable crossovers or Pec Dec flyes

I don't pound the other muscle groups as much.

 

[trinidad]

Maybe your doing too many working sets. I do 4 different exercises of 4 sets each for each muscle. (1 warm up set, then 3 sets of each till failure)...So no more than 16 sets per muscle. And I do a 2 day on 1 day off routine, and my recovery is spot on.

Also, not sure what your doing right now, but don't train more than 2 muscles in one day.

And finally I've noticed that when I'm on recovery speeds up a tad, but just listen to your body, if you feel good and strong then hit it a day early, if not take a day off......

Well said! tonyeau, you're doing a total of 25 sets for chest. If it works for you good, but you might want to try less and see how you feel with that. Gotta find what works best for you. I don't count my warmup sets but usually do about 3 light ones to get the blood in there. Then I do 4 sets of flat dumbell presses (used to be barbell but shoulders took a beating 350 lb max), 3 sets of incline dumbell presses and 3 sets of flat or incline flyes. On tricep day I do 2x dips to failure which also hits the lower chest. Maybe you should try 4 sets of flat, 3 sets of the rest or 4 sets for each but alternate one exercise each week like flyes and pecdeck, which to me are basically the same anyhow.

 

[tonyeua]

Well said! tonyeau, you're doing a total of 25 sets for chest. If it works for you good, but you might want to try less and see how you feel with that. Gotta find what works best for you. I don't count my warmup sets but usually do about 3 light ones to get the blood in there. Then I do 4 sets of flat dumbell presses (used to be barbell but shoulders took a beating 350 lb max), 3 sets of incline dumbell presses and 3 sets of flat or incline flyes. On tricep day I do 2x dips to failure which also hits the lower chest. Maybe you should try 4 sets of flat, 3 sets of the rest or 4 sets for each but alternate one exercise each week like flyes and pecdeck, which to me are basically the same anyhow.

Thanks. Will do.