I'm just not getting sore from workouts anymore.........

[redsamurai]

I get sore only during my workout. the last rep is tourture, I mean enough pain to make a grown man cry. but the next day im perfectly fine. im not sure what that means.

means you heal well. I don't know if this is also a result of my new diet, but injuries seem to heal faster now too. I tweaked my back a few weeks ago in the same way I do periodically and usually I'm down for at least a week. Like down I mean laying around, barely being able to walk without looking like I've got something up my ass. But that only lasted a day or two the other week.

 

[79steeler]

I do get sore if I only hit a bodypart once every seven day's. It's from the muscle falling back out of shape I think. I think hitting a muscle every 4 day's is optimum.

 

[redsamurai]

I do get sore if I only hit a bodypart once every seven day's. It's from the muscle falling back out of shape I think. I think hitting a muscle every 4 day's is optimum.

even if you're off the juice?

 

[lkjh]

I'm with 79steeler on frequency. I hit everything twice a week, or three times if I'm doing a full body routine and I never get sore in a specific muscle. If I do a real heavy lower body or really push it in later weeks of a full body routine I get sort of a total body soreness. Not doms but just like I'm getting run down.

 

[redsamurai]

I'm with 79steeler on frequency. I hit everything twice a week, or three times if I'm doing a full body routine and I never get sore in a specific muscle. If I do a real heavy lower body or really push it in later weeks of a full body routine I get sort of a total body soreness. Not doms but just like I'm getting run down.

you go heavy on all your body parts "twice" a week?

 

[lkjh]

you go heavy on all your body parts "twice" a week?

Not exactly, I'll do a full body routine similar to a 5x5, or if I split it up its upper/lower usually with one heavy and one lighter day.

 

[djeclipse]

Yeah, I would definately change up your workout. Your muscles have a way of adapting to lifts and routines so they don't get as sore as the first few weeks of a new routine. IMO you should try the Omega Pamphlete, the first four weeks I had so much lactic acid in my legs I thought I was on prop!

Being sore is absolutley no indication of how well your work out was.

 

[redsamurai]

Being sore is absolutley no indication of how well your work out was.

Isn't it the bodies way of telling you to chill while it tries to repair the massive damage you did to it with the viscious workout?

 

[djeclipse]

Isn't it the bodies way of telling you to chill while it tries to repair the massive damage you did to it with the viscious workout?

No, it simply means the body is not conditioned to the work you have given it.

Soreness has nothing to do with how well you have trained your muscles.

For example
If you do a typical one body part/ week BB type split you are typically constantly sore as you are only working that muscle once a week, it is not conditioned to the work and you get sore the next few days.

Doing something that involves whole body workouts training each muscle group a few times a week (core lifts), you will be sore at first, but after a week or so your body is conditioned to the work and you aren't sore after. At the same time, you make huge gains doing this type of work out, increasing muscle and size, all without being sore every day.

So if you are not sore any more, that is a good thing. As long as you are making gains, don't worry about being sore, or getting "the pump" during work outs, those are inaccurate ways of judging how good your workouts are going.

In fact the best thing you can do if you are sore is to train that body part sooner rather than waiting until you are not sore. When I first start doing squats, or running after a period of being off I am sore like hell. Instead of waiting till the soreness is gone to train again, I will get some kind of stimulus to that area the next time I am in the gym, or as soon as I can get out running again. Just warm up and stretch well, after a few sets the soreness is gone.