feeling sore

[hammerfist]

should i be feeling sore for a few days after a workout. I'm hitting it hard but am not sore. on a small amount of test (300 mg a week) and hcg. thanks

[trab]

Have you used steroid before?
You can push yourself farther and harder on it, most tend to take advantage of that.
I think it a waste if dont do so.

[uckmo]

your hitting it hard but your not sore? but now your sore?

the question isnt have you used steroids before?

the question should be have you ever worked out before?

To answer your question your fine just keep working out.

[Arnold jr]

Some will disagree, but soreness is irrelevant. You can have a good workout and not be sore...as you progress, it should actually be harder and harder to get that sore, but who cares...soreness has nothing to do with building muscle.

[Beener]

Some will disagree, but soreness is irrelevant. You can have a good workout and not be sore...as you progress, it should actually be harder and harder to get that sore, but who cares...soreness has nothing to do with building muscle.

Still nice to feel sore for the next couple days, sometimes its a nice reasurance that your workout was intense enough... 

[Arnold jr]

Still nice to feel sore for the next couple days, sometimes its a nice reasurance that your workout was intense enough... 

Sure, it's a nice little bonus, but in terms of muscle growth i don't think it's all that important. For example, I could do the same chest routine 2wks in a row, everything exactly the same, weight, reps, time frame...everything. Wk 1 not really sore, wk 2 sore as crap. Then I might do something completely different the next wk, no real soreness, the next wk something different again, and really sore. Each time I pushed as hard as I could...does that mean on the days where I didn't get sore my workouts were sub-par? Not hardly. Muscle growth is equated with stimulation, if soreness occurs, great, if not, great...as long as the muscle worked was adequately stimulated it should not matter.

I'll be honest, for years this was something I could not grasp. We all have a tendency to brainwash ourselves into thinking one particular thing is best. Take for instance training volume...more then half of us here at one time truly believed that the only way we were really doing anything in the gym was if we pounded as many sets per workout as Arnold said he used to do. Basically we brainwash ourselves into one way of thinking, and it's very difficult to re-brainwash ourselves in the right direction.

[trab]

AJ  has a good point. Soreness seems to get less, and I think AAS helping speed recovery helps too.
(except oxyM pumps where you drop the DB cramped up in pain  )

The Best use of Soreness it to guage EXACTLY WHERE yur hitting a muscle. esp w/ a new movment or change.


You CAN also get very sore w/ low reps.
                                                   After I got good PL bench form down, I made: Hams, abbs, and even the arches of my feet sore. That only after learn to use my whole body to bench, esp Leg drive.