For hypertrophy, is it best to push trough muscle soreness (from workout prior the day) and persevere or better to comply and let it heal first properly?
I've asked before and the contradion in answers is about 50/50 for/against. What is best to do /fit?
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Let it heal. Went for a run after leg day and while a lighter workout would probably be okay to get blood going to the muscles... Interval sprints made my legs worse. Sure they pumped up a bit and were able to complete the work out but I was out for an extra day on legs.
My opinion is wait, let em heal.
You can still work the muscles you don't have DOMS in, so if you have leg doms you can still work upper body etc. But you shouldn't work a muscle that still has DOMS.
>don't work muscles with DOMS
seriously? I sometimes have week-long DOMS fro leg day and I still squat heavy
If you have DOMS it means your muscle fibers are still torn up and in the process healing. If you go into the gym and work the same muscles while they're healing you'll only be tearing the fibers that haven't healed yet. So, for example, if say half of your fibers are repaired and half are still healing, you'll only tear half the fibers in your muscles during your workout and the other fibers will be interrupted mid-healing and have to start again, so you're better off just waiting until it's fully healed and then tearing all the fibers down at once to optimise your results. The more you work out the faster you're body will heal and your DOMS won't last as long.
Don't be a fucking pussy, OP. Your ancestors went through much worse. Make them proud.
I had thought that working through DOMS made it better though
Why?
"It's better to overtrain, than to undergain." - Dom Mazetti
How are you meant to do SS then if you cant work through DOMS? That shit squats and deadlifts every time for the first 3-6 weeks