How Should You Feel After Weights Training?

[ricky1981]

You'll get a lot of people exaggerating on here about how they feel.

"I could barely walk after legs"
"My back was so pumped I had to walk sideways through the door"
"I vomited mid set but carried on as I'm hardcore"
"Nearly passed out"

And a load of other horse ****.

I do some pretty ridiculous workouts sometimes in terms of volume and intensity. I've put others (icecold, Dom, MoNkeE) through some crazy workouts too, but after a minute or two rest at the end, you#re able to walk, maybe a little gingerly, but still have full control over their legs, you'll certainly sleep well but you're not going to feel much more. If you actually can't walk right after a leg workout (not talking about DOMS), then you're probably a phaggot and/or you've over done it and injured yourself.

It really grinds my gears when people say how they are so much more knackered or hurting so much more than everyone else when doing a workout, as if to say they train that much harder. When in reality, I've seen those type of people train and they train with all the intensity of an arthritic tortoise. No-one is impressed with your bull**** statements about how your legs felt so pumped you could carry the passengers of the Titanic back to shore on them.

So basically, to sum up, you should feel like you've worked out. If you do biceps on their own, you should feel pumped but you're not going to be gassed or beat up, and on the flip side, if you train back or legs, you should feel a little gassed, you should be sweating and you should be moving a little funny, but nothing more than that.

Well said, the only time I felt broken from training was the first few times I did squats, I couldn't get up off the sofa without it hurting but that soon stopped once those muscles realised they weren't just for giving me bones something soft to rest on.

 

[GSVBagpuss]

I'm clearly not working hard enough!

Having said that, I've had 2 day DOMS after doing a squat routine I found on TNation - stick 50% 1RM on the bar, amrap for 3 mins, rest 2, amrap for 2, rest for 1, amrap for 1. Ouch!

Anyway, I believe that if you're making progress in weights / reps then your doing just fine. I occasionally feel low on energy, but only a few hours after heavy DL

 

[BigPecsPeter]

Sometimes you can feel like crap for some time following training, but without that being directly caused by the training. Most common example of this is where your hormonal function is screwed up/down-regulated due to long term over-dieting or even short term but extreme caloric deprivation in the already lean. Your hormonal signals are trying to tell you to move around less (to restrict fat burning) and do this by making you feel extremely sluggish and achy. This is often amplified, MANY times over, following intense training bouts. Particularly with especially taxing movements like the deadlift.