I was a sports injury therapist / personal trainer for 11 years

Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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ElGrandeMongo said:
The DOMS are pretty crippling. I smoke all the time when I'm not at work though and it's still regularly unbearable, and the anticipation of how bad it's going to be is one of the biggest things holding me back every time I try to get myself back to working out.

Of course with these insane lockdowns, the gym I was training at last is now permanently closed, so on top of the fear of DOMS I'll have to walk into a new gym and start fresh with the peoples there, which is an act of bravery in itself for most people imo

If the snow is somewhat cleared off the sidewalks in my neighborhood I'll go for a run later today and report back on how I feel tomorrow lmao
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One last question. We determined you are a mesomorph type body. You dont lose muscle fast and with that I would assume you gain muscle fairly easy?

Unless you are specifically training for a competition I strongly suggest understanding that you dont need to do a crazy amount of stuff to get or stay in shape, you don't need to lift stupid amounts of weight to gain muscle mass because of your body type.

Your body is telling you your over doing it. Regardless if thats just regular soreness or more serious things. I suggest backing off of the intensity you are training at.

When we look at muscle soreness its micro tears in the muscle fibers. When we over do it those micro tears become much larger more severe and painful tears that take a long time to heal.

Again if your not training for a competition I suggest doing half of what you are doing now and see how that affects you. Slowly increase intensity until you reach a point of slight discomfort and recognize thats probably your upper limit for weekly fitness outside of competition training.

Just because someone can curl 140 lbs or squat 600 lbs doesn't mean they need to or should.
 
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ElGrandeMongo

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Wizzlebiz said:
One last question. We determined you are a mesomorph type body. You dont lose muscle fast and with that I would assume you gain muscle fairly easy?

Unless you are specifically training for a competition I strongly suggest understanding that you dont need to do a crazy amount of stuff to get or stay in shape, you don't need to lift stupid amounts of weight to gain muscle mass because of your body type.

Your body is telling you your over doing it. Regardless if thats just regular soreness or more serious things. I suggest backing off of the intensity you are training at.

When we look at muscle soreness its micro tears in the muscle fibers. When we over do it those micro tears become much larger more severe and painful tears that take a long time to heal.

Again if your not training for a competition I suggest doing half of what you are doing now and see how that affects you. Slowly increase intensity until you reach a point of slight discomfort and recognize thats probably your upper limit for weekly fitness outside of competition training.

Just because someone can curl 140 lbs or squat 600 lbs doesn't mean they need to or should.
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This is honestly where I think the issue lies, and therein it's mostly mental. I never feel like I've put the work in if I haven't worked with intensity. Maybe I'll do the grandpa shuffle on my jog for like 30 mins today... Keep it real light and see if I can set myself straight here slowly.

Yes I can put on muscle pretty easily. In my opinion my strength is very good, and increases very quickly with training. However, I can't seem to gain endurance at all in comparison to the other gains, due to the issues I've been having.
 
DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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ElGrandeMongo said:
This is honestly where I think the issue lies, and therein it's mostly mental. I never feel like I've put the work in if I haven't worked with intensity. Maybe I'll do the grandpa shuffle on my jog for like 30 mins today... Keep it real light and see if I can set myself straight here slowly.

Yes I can put on muscle pretty easily. In my opinion my strength is very good, and increases very quickly with training. However, I can't seem to gain endurance at all in comparison to the other gains, due to the issues I've been having.
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What's your hydration like. Before during and after?
 
Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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ElGrandeMongo said:
This is honestly where I think the issue lies, and therein it's mostly mental. I never feel like I've put the work in if I haven't worked with intensity. Maybe I'll do the grandpa shuffle on my jog for like 30 mins today... Keep it real light and see if I can set myself straight here slowly.

Yes I can put on muscle pretty easily. In my opinion my strength is very good, and increases very quickly with training. However, I can't seem to gain endurance at all in comparison to the other gains, due to the issues I've been having.
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Back off and allow progession to occur. Thats my advise. Maybe dont do the grandpa shuffle lol. Maybe cut the run in half but at the same intensity/speed you would normally do and slowly increase until you hit that point of discomfort.
 
Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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ElGrandeMongo said:
This is honestly where I think the issue lies, and therein it's mostly mental. I never feel like I've put the work in if I haven't worked with intensity. Maybe I'll do the grandpa shuffle on my jog for like 30 mins today... Keep it real light and see if I can set myself straight here slowly.

Yes I can put on muscle pretty easily. In my opinion my strength is very good, and increases very quickly with training. However, I can't seem to gain endurance at all in comparison to the other gains, due to the issues I've been having.
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One last thing. Dont do the same thing ever day you train. If you run today, hit the bag tomorrow, if you train biceps today dont train them again until the soreness has subsided.
 
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