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
You shouldn't train the same muscle group two days in a row. Wait at least two full days between workouts of the same muscle groups, DOMS or no. If you squat on monday, you don't squat again until thursday.
Can you back that up.? I mean it's not always like the logical thing is the scientifically comfirmed one
Also *your body
I do abs in tthe morning and evening both.
On a related note, I don't feel like I'm getting DOMS after my workouts. The only thing that's changed is I've started having protein shakes. Is this normal? Am I not working hard enough? I don't feel like I could add more weight and casually lift it ;~;
Check your form
Right after you check these dubs.
WHAT THE FUCK
And were are those cunts now? That's right, dead.
A good deal of rest does the muscles wonders.
When I started taking days off my stalling stopped.
Muscles need 48 hours not 72
You can do any exercise monday, wednesday, friday and its fine. One days rest between workouts is enough.
You stop having doms eventually. Its just how your body adapts.
Heal.
Any one who says anything else is a noob.
You don't grow by lifting. You grow when you're resting
this
anecdotal evidence is dismissable in court for good reasons
is incorrect
If you lift trough doms then your tissue tarss even further and grows back more defined. The same way that punching an already blue eye swells up to greater extends.
So the possibly most effective way for growing muscle is to infinitely keep interfering with the healing until your grow back as a beast at once. Of course this is impossible in reality therefore you have to try to push it as far as you can.
Good luck
WTF are you on
Too bad this is about bodybuilding, an activity in which anecdotal evidence is some of the best info available
Actually doms is caused by acetic acid, not by muscle fibers. The feeling isn't even real pain its just your body producing acid.
Poor OP, wanted an answer that wasn't 50/50 and got mixed results anyway.
Personally I get through this by doing Legs, Bi/Back, Tri/Chest/Shoulders and repeat. This way I'm never over forcing anything. At the same time, if I'm being lazy and miss two days in a row I start over with legs.
In case you were wondering I just pepper in and after most workouts. Nothing crazy but 10-15 minutes to activate them.
underrated as fuck bro
You "pepper" ?
And you're basically saying you let heal first. Cool
Well all lactic acid is gone within a few hours, or less than a day at most, and then the rest of the pain or discomfort comes from fluids rushing nutrients to those areas of the body to repair the fibres. So it's not necessarily the actual fibres causing the DOMS but the DOMS will stay until all the fibres are healed.
It's literally in the sticky.
it... it can be
Nice
Broscience the post.
Just because it's simplified doesn't mean it's broscience
Do people really do that? Just go on the internet and start talking about things they have no idea about?
Explain how its wrong.
Protip: you can't, it's right