Not Sore??
- Thread starter Sebani
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DOMS/soreness is not indicative of a good or stimulating workout but is a very good indicator of one's conditioning level not being matched to the load applied. This is why low volume, low frequency workouts get you sore consistently - training a bodypart 1x per week doesn't really allow one to get conditioned. If you are training with more frequency (and possibly more volume now) once you get used to it (generally a week or so providing you didn't overwhelm yourself with the increase) DOMS doesn't really show up on a consistent basis.
Thanks for clarifying this "abear" (I'm still partial to your old screen name, Massive Member!).
Also, if the original poster is still reading this thread, if your trainer simply has you following the machines, then he/she is nothing more than a "clipboard cowboy" and has no business charging you. Ditch them and get a real trainer.
Also, if the original poster is still reading this thread, if your trainer simply has you following the machines, then he/she is nothing more than a "clipboard cowboy" and has no business charging you. Ditch them and get a real trainer.
Free weights are like a machine totally customized to your own body structure - on top of that the body is best stimulated the way it is meant to work, like a system. The best exercises (dead, squat, bench, row, overhead), heavily load the entire system through a fundamental range of motion and recruit multiple joints and muscle groups.
I dont know if its normal, but I no longer get sore either. Even if I do a particularly intense workout on a muscle it feels fine the next day. So if thats not supposed to happen, dont feel too bad, Im right there with you.
Free weights are better if for no other reason than the body having to use the stabalizing muscles to keep things in place, which machines will completely avoid because there is no need to stabalize.
Free weights are better if for no other reason than the body having to use the stabalizing muscles to keep things in place, which machines will completely avoid because there is no need to stabalize.
I wouldnt worry about what measurement are good/bad. Do you feel good? Do you have the look you are trying to attain or if not there yet, are you making progress? If so, your on the right track.
Body composition varies from person to person, so measurements are not a very good way to determine progress. That is, unless you are using your original measurements as a method of determining progress, in which case measurements are OK.
Body composition varies from person to person, so measurements are not a very good way to determine progress. That is, unless you are using your original measurements as a method of determining progress, in which case measurements are OK.