Working out w/ DOMS?

Martha S. Gallagher said:

Hey MFWers,

The beginning of this week I started an exercise program that
incorporated some exercises that I hadn't been doing before or not to
the same intensity (from Alwyn Cosgrove's _Afterburn_ if anyone
cares).
Today I've got some pretty good DOMS going on and I couldn't remember
the conventional wisdom on that.

Do I butch up and do the regularly scheduled resistance program
tonight or do I put it off for a day until the muscles have R&Red a
little more?
I've got another day's worth of cardio to do, so I could do the cardio
component tonight and then the weights tomorrow. I'm not concerned
about the soreness in itself but rather whether pushing muscles that
are in a recovery period encourages further growth or does it just
slow down the healing process.

Thanks,
Martha

If two days have passed, you can work those muscles again. And being
Friday, if you worked them Mon or Tues, you're definitely ready to go again.
In fact, that should help with the soreness. If you're in pain, just do a
lighter workout than you would if all things were normal. After a few
weeks, the DOMS will minimize and won't be an issue. The main thing at this
point is to not let your muscles to settle back into what they were used
to...which is nothing. Keep hitting them on a regular basis.

The general rule of thumb is a one or two day recovery, with no more that
five days recovery.
--
-Larry

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ourselves." Hugh Beyer

Larry Hodges said:

Quoted message said:

The beginning of this week I started an exercise program that
incorporated some exercises that I hadn't been doing before or not to
the same intensity (from Alwyn Cosgrove's _Afterburn_ if anyone
cares).
Today I've got some pretty good DOMS going on and I couldn't remember
the conventional wisdom on that.

Do I butch up and do the regularly scheduled resistance program
tonight or do I put it off for a day until the muscles have R&Red a
little more?

Quoted message said:

If two days have passed, you can work those muscles again. And being

Thanks, that's what I thought. But, I have a tendency to believe that
"more is better" and so sometimes I need to make sure that I'm doing
"right is better" instead.

Quoted message said:

Friday, if you worked them Mon or Tues, you're definitely ready to go again.
In fact, that should help with the soreness. If you're in pain, just do a
lighter workout than you would if all things were normal. After a few
weeks, the DOMS will minimize and won't be an issue. The main thing at this
point is to not let your muscles to settle back into what they were used
to...which is nothing. Keep hitting them on a regular basis.

Not actually nothing (I'm not as strong as I should be or I'd like to be,
but I'm much stronger than I was at the beginning of the summer and have
*way* better form) just very different from some of the things I've been
throwing at my legs in the last 2 workouts. I've definitely discovered
that my hamstrings need lots of work - after one set I thought they were
going to sue me for seperate maintenance <g>.

Quoted message said:

The general rule of thumb is a one or two day recovery, with no more that
five days recovery.

One - two is good, more than 5 is slacking. Got it, thanks. <g>

Martha

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Martha S. Gallagher said:

Hey MFWers,

The beginning of this week I started an exercise program that
incorporated some exercises that I hadn't been doing before or not to
the same intensity (from Alwyn Cosgrove's _Afterburn_ if anyone cares).

Today I've got some pretty good DOMS going on and I couldn't remember
the conventional wisdom on that.

Do I butch up and do the regularly scheduled resistance program tonight
or do I put it off for a day until the muscles have R&Red a little more?

Butch up.

Quoted message said:

I've got another day's worth of cardio to do, so I could do the cardio
component tonight and then the weights tomorrow. I'm not concerned about
the soreness in itself but rather whether pushing muscles that are in a
recovery period encourages further growth or does it just slow down the
healing process.

Gospel according to Haycock says soreness is irrelevant and that if you want
hypertrophy you should work the muscle every other day:
www.hypertrophy-specific.com

Martha S. Gallagher said:

Hey MFWers,

The beginning of this week I started an exercise program that incorporated
some exercises that I hadn't been doing before or not to the same
intensity (from Alwyn Cosgrove's _Afterburn_ if anyone cares).

Today I've got some pretty good DOMS going on and I couldn't remember the
conventional wisdom on that.

Do I butch up and do the regularly scheduled resistance program tonight or
do I put it off for a day until the muscles have R&Red a little more?

You go gentle. You need to get the body properly prepped before you go
into the heavy stuff and if you've got big doms already then I'd think
you aren't prepped up enough. So back off for a day or two and then
go heavy again.

BB
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Martha S. Gallagher said:

Larry Hodges said:

Quoted message said:

The beginning of this week I started an exercise program that
incorporated some exercises that I hadn't been doing before or not to
the same intensity (from Alwyn Cosgrove's _Afterburn_ if anyone
cares).
Today I've got some pretty good DOMS going on and I couldn't remember
the conventional wisdom on that.

Do I butch up and do the regularly scheduled resistance program
tonight or do I put it off for a day until the muscles have R&Red a
little more?

Quoted message said:

If two days have passed, you can work those muscles again. And being

Thanks, that's what I thought. But, I have a tendency to believe that
"more is better"

Which is likely to lead to overtraining. It's all part of the learning
process though.

BB
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