Soreness

[Scott Stevenson]

Hi Scott,
going full bore with my training after my last surgery.The lifting hook has given me my right hand back  literally.I have had no problem doing any heavy pulling.Anyways i got brave and am using just turbo tier 2 for this whole blast.I just can't get sore anymore for some reason.I'm moving up on the loading and mr's so i am progressing.Only time i got sore was when i came back from my hospital stay or if i do a bunch of junk volume.I have been training for over 20 years and never got sore unless using a bunch of volume.Do you still get sore?You have me on 10 more years of training

Hey Bud!

Congrats on being able to go full bore!!!  That's awesome!  (I remember the lifting hook of course. Would be cool to see a pic of it if you're willing to share, for any others reading who might be in a similar situation. )

Actually, I get sore really easily.  I'm perpetually sore essentially when training to the point where if I less soreness fully subside between sessions, I'd be training only ever several weeks.  (I took about over a week off to help heal up an issue with my leg earlier this year and was sore my next session in - on my upper body where I'd not been doing an specific rehab or stretching) as if I'd been not taken a break at all.

This is something that I've seen personally years ago doing some DOMS related work as well as in the literature - there is massive variability in the susceptibility and extent of DOMS, as well as the repeated bout effect / protective effect of a previously injurious exercise bout on subsequent DOMS / muscle injury.

Thats you're NOT getting sore and still making great progress is awesome - this suggests to me that you're on the upswing of the hormesis curve of "dose" (function of workload and effort) and adaptation (growth) such that you might even be able to handle more volume muscularly were it not for the taxation on the CNS, endocrine and immune system, etc.

-S