DOMS (Quick Question)

[Skeptic]

Hello!

Every time I do my leg/ab day I get really bad DOMS for the next 2 or 3 days, however when I do any upper body day I don't ache at all. Maybe for 30 minutes after the workout, but nothing else after.

Could this be a sign I am over training my legs, or under training my upper body? Or neither?

Thanks!

 

[SK07]

Hello!

Every time I do my leg/ab day I get really bad DOMS for the next 2 or 3 days, however when I do any upper body day I don't ache at all. Maybe for 30 minutes after the workout, but nothing else after.

Could this be a sign I am over training my legs, or under training my upper body? Or neither?

Thanks!

Doubt it. Over training would have you exhausted and really lethargic, takes a lot to get to that point. Under-training is possibility, strain it.

What I do is annialate it. Make sure your actually straining it, always train to failure. I pretty much always have a mate to help me out as im always lifting as heavy as possible (with good form of course) but I will train to failure on the last set usually and just get to the point say on bench press where I push as hard as possible even if I can't make it, know they will grab it off me anyway.

 

[Skeptic]

Doubt it. Over training would have you exhausted and really lethargic, takes a lot to get to that point. Under-training is possibility, strain it.

What I do is annialate it. Make sure your actually straining it, always train to failure. I pretty much always have a mate to help me out as im always lifting as heavy as possible (with good form of course) but I will train to failure on the last set usually and just get to the point say on bench press where I push as hard as possible even if I can't make it, know they will grab it off me anyway.

Well I am doing a very similar routine to the BB sticky, almost to the letter. I always get concerned that I'm not doing enough. I train to failure also, but then I feel after I have trained the last set in a certain exercise, about 10 minutes later I feel like I could do more!

I always hear that 'less is more' with regards to lifting, but I never feel like I'm doing enough. Maybe I just have a quick rate of recovery?!

 

[SK07]

Well I am doing a very similar routine to the BB sticky, almost to the letter. I always get concerned that I'm not doing enough. I train to failure also, but then I feel after I have trained the last set in a certain exercise, about 10 minutes later I feel like I could do more!

I always hear that 'less is more' with regards to lifting, but I never feel like I'm doing enough. Maybe I just have a quick rate of recovery?!

Don't do like tons of exercises, see for chest I do what? 3 exercises and thats me done, but I annialate it.

 

[Bakedgoods]

If you were REALLY, REALLY going to failure and giving it your absolute maximum. You wouldn't be doing it again....

You could try taking something like glutamine or leucine during your workout to help the doms.

You don't need to do tons. At the moment I train each bodypart once every 9 days and i'm only doing one set the failure with a warmup or moderate weight set before it.

I had more severe DOMS the other day from my chest session where I only did one set to failure on each exercise than when i've trained with at least 3 heavy sets.