No soreness w/ S&H?

[lynnesq2]

Dear educated crowd:
I finally got brave enough to try S&H (just the shoulders part)even tho i've had the tape since it came out. my question is: have you all felt sorness after doing the S&H series? maybe i didn't use heavy enough weights because i feel absolutely no soreness today. Shouldn't i feel some soreness to show that i've worked the muscles and to make progress?
Any advise would be welcome! Thanks
lynne

 

[gettingthere]

Hi Lynne,

Possibly you didn't use weights as challenging as you could have, however, for some strange reason, the first time I did S&H I didn't feel any soreness until the 2nd day. Weird for me because I usually start to feel something within 12 to 24 hours on other workouts. Now that I've gone through the series at least once, on my second time around, I am feeling it more quickly. Of course I use the first time on a workout to figure out what weights to use, etc, so probably I'm more focused after that too.

Just my two cents.

Liz

 

[jillybean]

If you did a search, you would probably find 20 different posts with this same question. I personally think that the 1 min. rest has a lot to do with it. You break down a lot of lactic acid. Also, if I do S&H on Mon, I don't feel it until Wed or Thurs. Have fun!

 

[kathryn]

Lynne,
I also think the rests and stretches between sets help offset lactic acid build-up. I find that I'm not very sore at all after doing S&H, but that I'm very sore after doing Powerhour.

 

[lynnesq2]

Kathryn: i did a search (after i posted!) and saw a similar post i think by you. Did you stay on the S&H for 3 weeks? and if so, did you see any results, even though you did not have any soreness?
i too, get sore from power hour, but am worried i won't see results from S&H if i am not sore!!
lynne

 

[kathryn]

Actually, I'm pretty fickle about my exercise routines and I don't usually stay with any one for three weeks. I did use S/H chest and back (with shoulders added) for about two weeks, combining it with other routines for the legs and arms. I definitely have gained strength by doing slow and heavy, because when I go back to moderate weight routines, I can lift heavier. Now, I like alternating between slow and heavy (for the strength benefit) with the higher rep/lower weight routines (for sculpting).

 

[annie2867]

I rarely feel soreness in the shoulder area and I have to wonder if it's because we use that area for everything from lifting to pushing. On the last set of shoulders S&H last Sunday, I tacked on an extra set of overhead presses doing each shoulder separately with a heavy weight, I felt a slight twinge of difference from the norm the next day, but I thought I would be really sore. Now triceps, that's a differenct story, when I start my rotation of S&H and I do triceps, I am really really sore the next day so I'm thinking it's because we don't use the tricep area a lot??