Squats and soreness

[brad34]

I have been having trouble making gains with my squats. I squat once a week and always the day after my legs are so damn sore I just cringe at the thought of doing them the following week.

FYI: The first time I did squats I could barely walk the following 5 days..

Believe me I get sore from other lifts, but not to the degree I get from squats.

What gives?

 

[keasbey]

i started with the 3x5 and now am on the 5x5 and you have to squat 3 days a week. my legs no longer feel sore the next day.. have you been doing squats for awhile or is this like the 2nd week of doing them?

 

[SaiBoT]

Do them every 5 days! One week you do them Mon-Fri, next week Wed, then the following Mon-Friday again! This way you will get better results, for some people 7-8 days is too long to the point that your fybers "forgot" the previous workout anond it has to reset all over again which means more pain and actually no gains.

 

[cobracock1979]

For the soreness - 20 gramms glutamine a day. Also, when you go to ben put a pillow under your feet and raise the angle of your legs. Should help.

+1 to the above - e5d is good. No pain...no gain bro!

 

[Big_BK]

I do my squats on thursday but i also have an event day on sunday which i count as legs as well. Legs are gonna hurt if you do them right, just get used to the pain.

 

[brad34]

Thanks for the replies!

Not my 2nd week in a row doing squats, I wouldn't be concerned then. It is however my 6th week in a row.

Well I guess I am doing them right, because they are sore!

 

[utotmeh8]

the same shit happens to me...once i started doing them every 4-5 days it solved the problem. no more falling onto the toilet to take a shit and walkin like a penguin.

 

[brad34]

the same shit happens to me...once i started doing them every 4-5 days it solved the problem. no more falling onto the toilet to take a shit and walkin like a penguin.

LOL Gripping the rail as I walk down the stairs

 

[NJL52]

Excessive soreness isn't a feeling of being well trained or doing things right. Excessive soreness is overtraining. It is damage to your body that takes extended amount of time to heal.

Your body benefits the most by healing very little damage and adding more muscle as a reaction to stimulus. The most effective way to exploit this nature is to do very little damage while provoking growth. Doing this multiple times a week provides the best results.

If you can't work out a large body part two days after you last did it, you are training it too hard.

Practical Programming is a great book to read that talks a lot about this subject.