FIT WTF? My legs arent getting sore anymore.

[burritosupreme]

Heres the background. I never did legs for a while because it was just too damn hard. Im talking about years off but i also took 3-4 years off lifting also.

I started working out for about a year without doing legs and my upper body blew up (30 lbs+ weight gain easily/muscle memory). But that came with a price by not doing leg.. my knees started hurting and i felt uneven/weak from waist down.

The first 2 months of doing legs, i could barely walk the next 2-3 days and my squats have been improving drastically.. i also have no more knee pain. However, now i don't get nearly as sore afterwards and recover a lot faster. Whats the deal?


My routine:

Squats: 10x4 + 1 warm up (15x1)
Leg press: 12x3
Quad machine curls: 10x3
Machine kickbacks: 10x3

 

[Ceaze]

bulgarian split squats

 

[CJPfaff]

bulgarian split squats

Fuuuuuu......

Those hurt so damn bad. They will break any plateau.

 

[Mangina]

Do some upside down squats.

Stand on you hands and put the bar on your foot arches.

 

[jizzmo]

Do some upside down squats.

Stand on you hands and put the bar on your foot arches.

 

[Uncle Lee]

I don't know how many times it needs to be repeated but I guess it's once more..

BEING SORE DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAD A BETTER WORKOUT THAN WHEN YOU WEREN'T SORE.

Fuck.

 

[eljefedetonto]

Heres the background. I never did legs for a while because it was just too damn hard. Im talking about years off but i also took 3-4 years off lifting also.

I started working out for about a year without doing legs and my upper body blew up (30 lbs+ weight gain easily/muscle memory). But that came with a price by not doing leg.. my knees started hurting and i felt uneven/weak from waist down.

The first 2 months of doing legs, i could barely walk the next 2-3 days and my squats have been improving drastically.. i also have no more knee pain. However, now i don't get nearly as sore afterwards and recover a lot faster. Whats the deal?


My routine:

Squats: 10x4 + 1 warm up (15x1)
Leg press: 12x3
Quad machine curls: 10x3
Machine kickbacks: 10x3

well what's the fucking problem

 

[Ore]

bulgarian split squats

Masochism at its finest

 

[SwifDi]

bulgarian split squats

maybe just the bar

 

[elduderino323]

i did a half hour of leg stretching yesterday and it feels like my muscles are going to snap today worse than any pains after squating, and i gave myself blueballs somehow.

 

[Fattiefalldown]

i did a half hour of leg stretching yesterday and it feels like my muscles are going to snap today worse than any pains after squating, and i gave myself blueballs somehow.

Can't stretch that third leg, bro.

 

[subwoofer]

try some natural glute ham raises

 

[kronik85]

bulgarian split squats

thanks, haven't done these in awhile.

 

[burritosupreme]

I don't know how many times it needs to be repeated but I guess it's once more..

BEING SORE DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAD A BETTER WORKOUT THAN WHEN YOU WEREN'T SORE.

Fuck.

I never heard that before. I always thought your tear up your muscles and the more its sore, the more it needs to recover/rebuild.. and that is how you get new muscle fibers.

 

[CottonTowels]

I never heard that before. I always thought your tear up your muscles and the more its sore, the more it needs to recover/rebuild.. and that is how you get new muscle fibers.

The body becomes conditioned to the process of the muscles breaking down and will be more efficient at recovery.

 

[Uncle Lee]

I never heard that before. I always thought your tear up your muscles and the more its sore, the more it needs to recover/rebuild.. and that is how you get new muscle fibers.

 

[Satellite]

Change your workout. And lift heavier and harder.

 

[smb is me]

why are you

this is the EXACT SAME THING that 99% every one thinks when they first start lifting.


But yes, muscles grow by a process of tearing them down and then having them recover bigger and stronger. However, the soreness is just the build up of lactic acid in the muscles.

You could be sore everyday and not make much progress. You could never be sore and make great progress. You could never be sore and not make any progress. You could be sore every day and make great progress.

So you see, there is no correlation between being sore and making progress.

 

[Ceaze]

However, the soreness is just the build up of lactic acid in the muscles.

lactic acid has nothing to do with soreness

 

[smb is me]

lactic acid has nothing to do with soreness

wait, since when. DAMN YOU HIGHSCHOOL HEALTH CLASS.

and it would appear, good sir, that google agrees with you.


aside from being wrong on that point, i still stand by the rest of my post.

 

[MDPE]

bulgarian split squats

 

[Uncle Lee]

why are you

this is the EXACT SAME THING that 99% every one thinks when they first start lifting.


But yes, muscles grow by a process of tearing them down and then having them recover bigger and stronger. However, the soreness is just the build up of lactic acid in the muscles.

You could be sore everyday and not make much progress. You could never be sore and make great progress. You could never be sore and not make any progress. You could be sore every day and make great progress.

So you see, there is no correlation between being sore and making progress.

I because a 3 second search on any god damn website would tell him he's wrong. And if some one is too lazy to search they are probably too lazy to make progress

 

[smb is me]

I because a 3 second search on any god damn website would tell him he's wrong. And if some one is too lazy to search they are probably too lazy to make progress

touche, sir.

 

[burritosupreme]

I because a 3 second search on any god damn website would tell him he's wrong. And if some one is too lazy to search they are probably too lazy to make progress

I don't get the 'search' option because I have a free account here and I don't know of any other websites.

 

[apman0000]

when you say you don't get sore anymore

do you mean you feel absolutely no soreness at all after lifting legs? if so you probably just need to raise the intensity of the workouts and switch up your routine a bit cause you're handling your current routine too easily and aren't causing as much growth

or do you mean that it just isn't sore as shit making it hard to get out of a chair the next day sore, cause that stops being the case for the most part after the first 6 months or so of continued lifting