Is the muscle still building even though you don't get sore anymore?
Is being sore a good indicator of muscle building?
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Hi there!
This is a great question!
Originally, when starting a new exercise you typically get sore since your body uses new muscles in that exercise. Moreover, if you are doing a lot of resistance training, your muscles may experience soreness in the eccentric (or stretching) phase. You may have heard of this soreness as called Delayed Onset Muscle Syndrome or DOMS.
It is commonly believed that if your muscles are sore, they have been sufficiently torn down at the myofibrial level and are now hungry for recuperation via rest and diet, which is the muscle building phase.
However, somewhat confusing is that what if you exercise and do not get soreness, are you still building muscle?
Marrying education, logic, and personal experience, I would say yes. However, i believe that soreness begets better muscle building than none soreness, since I believe more muscle recuperation, or muscle building, is needed. Similar to this logic is that if you keep doing the same exercise, your body will get used to it and not build on top of it.
For elite athletes, constant soreness is probably a challetnge to get, which is why gains are slower as a percentage of overall gain at that level. Said differently, you positive body changes are most noticable at the early level of exercise.
Thus, shoot for muscle soreness first. However, exercise is better than none. You can get more soreness by cross training your body with different exercises to round out your muscle building.
I believe this answers your question, but if not, you may email me.
Good luck on your diet and fitness goals!
Trainer Gregg
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Yes being sore is an indication, it also tells that ur muscle needs a bit rest 2 be built up stronger
Yeah, muscle is still being built if u don't get sore but works out regularly.
At first you certainly will be sore. Your body is not used to the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles and causes the soreness, nor is it simply used to the pain of the microtears of the muscle fiber. However, your body will build up a tolerance for both the lactic acid and the pain and you eventually wont feel much at all. Deep tissue massages and lots of liquids can flush the lactic acid out of the muscle after you work out, and stretching can help your body not feel as much pain the next day. A good way to feel that soreness that you come to love, though, is to work "strange" muscle groups and to change up your routine when you feel like you aren't getting your optimal workout anymore. I like to switch mine around every couple weeks, to prevent both physical and mental exhaustion.
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