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Cathlete
I am having my usual incessant problem with DOMS and am again comtemplating why.
I am SICK to death of being so incapacitatingly sore from my weight workouts. AND, I am really having a hard time figuring out what I am doing wrong!! I am using weights that allow me to fatigue at the set amount of reps. It is not excruciating ever for upper body, but for my lower body it is taking 5 days to recover from one lower body workout(this week is was the Pyramid Lower-UP ONLY!!!).
I know they say DOMS is caused when you are unaccustomed to an activity or you raise the "bar" in intensity if you are at an advanced level. Well, every workout I strive to beat my last, but often times do not pick up a heavier weight. But, I read an article that said if you usually do 3 sets of 10, that you should wait until you can do 3 sets of 15 with the same poundage before you increase. In the article, the sets always remained the same every workout as well as the repitions.
What I am wondering is, do you think my body is literally "forgetting" which workout I am doing? Meaning, even though I don't seem to be going crazy upping my weights, I am still getting sore because I am using so many different videos week to week. Like if I do Pyramid Lower this week and MIS and PH next week, I will still get sore the next week when I do PLB again, because my body FORGOT what that was (rep scheme, total sets).
All of Cathe's tapes are so different in reps/sets that I think my poor body never gets used to anything (and we THANK Cathe for this???!!!).
I eat well and sleep well, so this is really not an issue about recovery. I am finding that this debilitating soreness is keeping me from doing the intense cardio I want to do on my off days from lifting, but don't want to decrease weight loads as I think my weight loads are appropriate.
I can usually do two upper body weight workouts a week,but am finding that only one heavy lower body workout is possible for me. Even adding in PH or an endurance tape would be almost impossible. IF I did no cardio I could do it, but I love IMAX and kickboxing and am finding I have to give them up alot of weeks because of this!!
So........do you think you can still make good gains with one lower body workout per week. If you are lifting heavy enough to be sore? I would rather give one workout my absolute all than have to give 50% to two workouts. Any ideas?
Janice
I am SICK to death of being so incapacitatingly sore from my weight workouts. AND, I am really having a hard time figuring out what I am doing wrong!! I am using weights that allow me to fatigue at the set amount of reps. It is not excruciating ever for upper body, but for my lower body it is taking 5 days to recover from one lower body workout(this week is was the Pyramid Lower-UP ONLY!!!).
I know they say DOMS is caused when you are unaccustomed to an activity or you raise the "bar" in intensity if you are at an advanced level. Well, every workout I strive to beat my last, but often times do not pick up a heavier weight. But, I read an article that said if you usually do 3 sets of 10, that you should wait until you can do 3 sets of 15 with the same poundage before you increase. In the article, the sets always remained the same every workout as well as the repitions.
What I am wondering is, do you think my body is literally "forgetting" which workout I am doing? Meaning, even though I don't seem to be going crazy upping my weights, I am still getting sore because I am using so many different videos week to week. Like if I do Pyramid Lower this week and MIS and PH next week, I will still get sore the next week when I do PLB again, because my body FORGOT what that was (rep scheme, total sets).
All of Cathe's tapes are so different in reps/sets that I think my poor body never gets used to anything (and we THANK Cathe for this???!!!).
I eat well and sleep well, so this is really not an issue about recovery. I am finding that this debilitating soreness is keeping me from doing the intense cardio I want to do on my off days from lifting, but don't want to decrease weight loads as I think my weight loads are appropriate.
I can usually do two upper body weight workouts a week,but am finding that only one heavy lower body workout is possible for me. Even adding in PH or an endurance tape would be almost impossible. IF I did no cardio I could do it, but I love IMAX and kickboxing and am finding I have to give them up alot of weeks because of this!!
So........do you think you can still make good gains with one lower body workout per week. If you are lifting heavy enough to be sore? I would rather give one workout my absolute all than have to give 50% to two workouts. Any ideas?
Janice
I notice that when I use the workouts I don't use as often as PS and Pyramids, I do get DOMS. Or I feel it the day after and the soreness lasts longer than usual. When I use PS or the Pyramids (the fundamentals in my strength training rotations), I do get sore, but the soreness is good and lasts for only a day. How you feel right now is how I feel when I do workouts like ME, CTX-UB split, S&H, and those circuit-type workouts that I don't do too much of.
