Muscle Soreness question?

[Smurfy]

Ever experience a significant difference in muscle soreness inone side of the body? For instance, a much greater soreness in the right quad as opposed to the left quad after squatting. When i woke up this morning and tried to stretch (in the bed you know how you do) my left leg was a little sore but my right leg was screaming in pain and it was twitching and shaking (the whole leg) wtf?

woudl this suggest that one side is stronger than the other?

 

[superqt4u2nv]

woudl this suggest that one side is stronger than the other?

With out a doubt. My shoulder is like that cause of an injury one side is weaker and always more sore then the other.

 

[ruggermu]

That could be true but not definate. I have alot of aches and pains from what rugby and wrestling have put my body through(fallin apart young). But to the point some days I'll wake up and different things hurt worse then others, and I think alot of time it's how I slept on a already sore muscle. So is it a one time thing? If so I wouldn't be to quick to think it means anything

 

[Scotsman]

Probably not one side stronger than the other. This differential comes from neural pathways and innervation. Your dominant side has more/stronger neural pathways and a greater ability to innervate the muscle. This also leads to great awareness of biofeedback. It is fairly typicall that when you really hammer a set of muscles that the dominant side will feel the effects more even though both got the same amount of work. Also since you compounded exercises by doing squats and bench (see I read your posts) in the same day you had a greater effect on the central nervous system so therefore you have magnified the cns response/sensitivity.

Not that one side may or may not be stronger than the other but differing levels of soreness probably isn't the best medium to judge strength imbalances on.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[Smurfy]

thanks Scots. thats what Im thinking.