Our Physical Fitness

[Scribe]

Did Back yesterday, everything was good. Cannot get there today as I'm driving to appointments, but I'll be in again tomorrow for a long one.

 

[Mannahnin]

I kept up the motivation and went in again last night for a quick session, upper back and shoulders. Face pulls three sets, machine shoulder press three sets with a drop set on the third (got more reps than last time), and three sets of machine rear delt flies (also more reps than last time with the same weights).

 

[Mannahnin]

Still no darn chest soreness.

 

[Scribe]

Still no darn chest soreness.

I've found in that case, I have to mix up the exercises and dramatically increase the weight and/or reps.

Which inevitably leads to an injury...but at least I'm sore!

 

[Evaniel]

I've found in that case, I have to mix up the exercises and dramatically increase the weight and/or reps.

Which inevitably leads to an injury...but at least I'm sore!

 

[Evaniel]

Still no darn chest soreness.

In all seriousness, I think DOMS, soreness, whatever you want to call it, is kind of overrated as a metric. As long as you're able to add reps and/or weight and progressively overload, I think you're good to go.

 

[TiQuinn]

In all seriousness, I think DOMS, soreness, whatever you want to call it, is kind of overrated as a metric. As long as you're able to add reps and/or weight and progressively overload, I think you're good to go.

Yeah, this is where I'm at. If I'm so sore that I don't want to do the next workout, then DOMS has overstayed its usefulness. I want to feel it the next day, but not be broken by it. For me, "feeling it the next day" is simply that - I can tell I worked out. It's actually kind of a good feeling, if that makes sense.

 

[Mannahnin]

Sure, yeah. A nice satisfying soreness confirming that I put in some hard work. I don't want to be debilitated (except for a few minutes after a hard leg exercise).

I've gotten it regularly in my arms and back and legs, which are all areas where I've seen better growth and development than my chest. So you understand the correspondence I'm drawing. Even though I understand intellectually that it's at most correlated with growth stimulus, not a direct confirmation or driver thereof.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

Alot of variance for me. Sometimes I will fast, which works for me. Kids used to be small enough for me to pack them into their "chariot", which at least added some weight element onto boring runs. Skating is great. I have a hard time running without a little physical challenge thrown in. Sometimes I stop somewhere beautiful and run some Tai-Bo steps I remembered. I go with the middle ground... functional cardio + body weight resistance stuff we used to do in , or

 

[Evaniel]

Sure, yeah. A nice satisfying soreness confirming that I put in some hard work. I don't want to be debilitated (except for a few minutes after a hard leg exercise).

I've gotten it regularly in my arms and back and legs, which are all areas where I've seen better growth and development than my chest. So you understand the correspondence I'm drawing. Even though I understand intellectually that it's at most correlated with growth stimulus, not a direct confirmation or driver thereof.

And in keeping with my hypocrisy, I'm moving on to the next phase of my minimalist training, adding back in drop sets and myoreps--and hoping to get a bit more soreness!