Running out of go-go juice

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FyreAJF

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I been like this my whole life, it has always been almost impossible for me to get sore muscles. This was very true when I was young and growing up on a hobby farm. About 4 times a year we brought in the hay bails and I used a 6 foot pick-fort to do it and I never got sore, while my cousins that used to work, would not be able to move for a week.

Well now I am age 44, I am almost 300 pounds, I have 165 pounds of lean body mass and the rest is fat, plus I have a bunch of health issues. So I decided to start working out with a trainer, 4 times a week and have been doing it for the last 2 weeks.

Every time I see him he wants to know if I was sore from the last work out and during the training session he wants to know if I am feeling any burn. The answer is always the same, my main muscles are not getting sore from the work out at all, but what I am getting is very fatigued during the work out.

Like today he had me do 4 sets of 20 reps of body squats then 3 sets of 20 of alt bench step-ups and 4 sets of 20 leg press, after which we had to stop doing any more exercises for my legs because the muscles above my knees were dead. In fact it took a few hours before my muscles above my knee were back to normal, where I could bend them without falling over. And yet I never felt any burn, 3 hours after I worked out my legs felt like I never worked out today.

At the end of the almost 2 hour work out, I had a hard time walking a straight line, and forget about trying to bend over. And yet as I am writing this I am moving around trying to find a single sore muscle and finding nothing, other then a general feeling of some fatigue.

About 3 times when I was much younger I went on 3 day canoe trips with some friends, I was in the back and did all the steering and a lot more of the paddling then my friends did. My friends were in shape, while I was over weight, yet after 3 days of paddling I was fine, not a sore muscle to be found, while my friends would be dead to the world for a few days.

From past experience I improve my muscles very slowly, and only the muscle group that I am working out first. About 13 years ago I did work out for about 6 months and after the first 2 months I noticed that I did not increase the weights on the leg press machine by a single pound. While I was increasing the weights for the machines I used for my arms. So I changed it around and started working my legs before my arms, and yes my legs started to getting stronger and my arms stopped improving.

So the question is, can I do something or take something that is legal and safe that can help me improve how much energy my muscle can hold, or how fast they replenish themselves again.
 
He is not trying to get me sore, he just wants to see how far he can push me, before I start getting sore, and it is not working because my muscles are getting drained of energy before they get worked.
 
Derwyddon said:
But they are getting worked out, just because they're not sore doesn't mean they haven't been worked out. You need heavier weights, not more reps
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I agree.

4 sets of 20 reps of multiple exercises for the same muscle group is an awful lot of reps. Is there any particular reason he isn't going heavier?
 
As for the health issues, gout, stage 2 diabetes and a little bit of high blood pressure. And he is going with heavier weights we went from 120 pounds with the leg press to 300 pounds in less then 2 weeks. Every time I see him he increases the weights on the equipment, plus more reps and sets.

I was always under the impression you need to feel a burn and get a little bit sore, to have your muscles increase in strength, am I wrong in this belief.
 
I don't know what a hobby farm is but I grew up on a real farm. Between the ages of 13 and 18 I handled thousands of bails of hay. Not once, not a single time, did bailing hay make my muscles sore. I could handle 2000 bails in a day and never feel sore. The hay bails just don't weigh enough. (Same thing with canoing. I can't imagine becoming sore from rowing a boat). However, I would get muscle soreness from lifting weights. But you have to lift heavy! You're not going to get sore by doing 20 reps of body squats. You're going to get sore by doing fewer reps of real squats with weight; heavy weight.

Your muscles are no different than everyone else's. If you want to get sore, you need to start lifting heavy.

btw, how (or better yet why) would you handle a bail of hay with a pitch fork?
 
if your trainer is working you to try and get you sore,then he hasn`t got a clue what he is doing,if he did he would have told you what the guys have already said that soreness is not an indicator of either a good workout or hypertrophy.
 
First off my trainer has mentioned a few times he is trying to shock me, and so far we have not done the same routine twice.

For the second part you guys are not understanding what I am trying to say, my muscles are not special they are just the opposite. It is taking an extremely short period of time, before my whole body gets drained of energy and I feel like I am going on 70 percent strength. After a very short time my limiting factor is not my muscles strength but the energy to work that muscle.

My recuperate time is not in a few minutes but more like 30 to 90 minutes, before I start feeling normal again instead of so fatigued.
 
Listen I been training for 2 weeks, so forget already what my trainer is doing. Listen I been like this for 44 years. When I was a kid I was not fat, I as strong as a bull, and yet go-go juice is something I said when I was a kid, because I used to run out of energy so fast.
 
the way you are describing it,it sounds like your fitness levels are poor,maybe you need to do more cardio or circuits to improve your conditioning,also you probably need to check your diet out.
the other thing it sounds like and is more likely,is that your numbskull trainer is pushing you to hard to get the so-called soreness.
you have only been training for two wks try going at your own pace untill you are ready to go harder or faster.
 
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