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    Why do people like DOMS?

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    • Posts: 180 Member
      kami3006 wrote: »
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      ^^ +1
      Thankfully, I've been doing this long enough that I rarely get it anymore. My husband just started a new lifting program and he's walking around like a 90 year old today. I don't get the sense that he's enjoying it at all, though I am enjoying sending him teasing texts; cause that's what loving wives do.

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    • Posts: 49,119 Member
      Because sometimes for consistent exercisers, it's a great indicator that you UPPED your intensity or program.

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    • Posts: 626 Member
      Oh, I thought this was a sex question...
    • Posts: 2,468 Member
      I've never been a fan of it myself. But if you work areas you rarely work, or work any area really hard, sooner or later it's going to happen.
    • Posts: 721 Member
      ceckhardt369 wrote: »
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      Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. So basicly it's why you are after a workout and sometimes up to several days later!

      Thanks for the response!
    • Posts: 2,093 Member
      It's going to happen as you try new things or up exercise intensity, change variables, etc.; it just shouldn't be something to shoot for all the time and it seems like that's a common view.

      Just like sweating your *kitten* off or puking seems to be common. Somebody was talking to me after a squat session where I was just doing singles and she said, "I can't believe your're not sweating your *kitten* off like me." I said, "I set my training goals and as long as I hit my training goals that's all that matters. If I sweat my *kitten* off then fine, if not fine, if I'm sore then fine, if I'm not sore then fine; all that matters is that I achieve my goals with the plan I set-out with."
    • Posts: 459 Member
      I like them, but can't explain why. I admit it is a weird thing to like.
    • Posts: 1,180 Member
      I like them! Especially during a full body stretch the next day, feels good.
    • Posts: 17,456 Member
      aarar wrote: »
      I'm weird, I actually enjoy the pain. For me it's a reminder that I did something good for myself.

      I get this

      But I don't get DOMS that often and also don't confuse them with a sign of a successful workout
    • Posts: 908 Member
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      Ok not really, but I do like the reminder sometimes that I killed it and my muscles are talking back (though the time frame is usually more like 24-48 hours).
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      I like DOMS, can't really say why though :confused:
    • Posts: 733 Member
      I really don't think about it much, If i'm beating my logbook and getting stronger week to week month to month i really don't worry much if i'm getting sore or not.
    • Posts: 827 Member
      I remember liking it when I was younger because it made me feel like I'd accomplished something - the "no pain, no gain" mentality. Now that I have fairly regular aches and pains in various parts of my body, and I move partially to PREVENT that, it takes on a new perspective.
    • Posts: 3 Member
      A lack of DOMS doesn't mean you didn't work out hard. Even when I started seriously lifting weights, I've never suffered from DOMS. I was doing push-ups before then and, yeah, got DOMS when I first started those. There is no scientific consensus about why DOMS happens. Since I'm so active in general I hardly get DOMS anymore. My butt muscles are always sore after a dance class, but that's common among all dancers.
    • Posts: 17,525 Member
      I like the feeling of being a little stiff and a little sore- but straight out and out- crippling doms? not so much.
    • Posts: 4,590 Member
      no idea; i loathe it!
    • Posts: 2,598 Member
      edited October 2015
      I'm on training break until next week and I will be starting again with a strong hypertrophy component to my program.

      I expect my suffering will be legendary, even in hell.

      But I'm kinda looking forward to it.
    • Posts: 3,979 Member
      BZAH10 wrote: »
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      This exactly for me. Particularly for those of us who've worked out regularly for years. When I do get any kind of muscle soreness it tells me I've targeted an area I must've been neglecting, so I see it as a good thing. Not the pain itself, but the accomplishment.

      This! I just take it as a sign that that particular muscle group needed the exercise.
    • Posts: 17,525 Member
      rabbitjb wrote: »
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      I get this

      But I don't get DOMS that often and also don't confuse them with a sign of a successful workout

      PREACH!
    • Posts: 25,902 Member
      Machka9 wrote: »
      DOMS makes me feel just a bit sad ... that I've let myself go enough to feel DOMS when I start working out again.

      Maybe I should add that just about the only time I experience DOMS is if I haven't been weightlifting for 6+ months, and then I start again. DOMS will hit me hard the day after the first over-all workout, then mildly after the second and third workout, and then it's gone. I can increase weights, increase intensity, change my routine, etc., but as long as I'm working out regularly and making the changes relatively gradually ... no DOMS.

      And that's the way I like it. :)

      For me, DOMS means I've let myself become unfit.

    • Posts: 1,510 Member
      Curious?? Does lactic acid have anything to do with DOMS?
    • Posts: 4,855 Member
      nakedraygun wrote: »
      I'm on training break until next week and I will be starting again with a strong hypertrophy component to my program.

      I expect my suffering will be legendary, even in hell.

      But I'm kinda looking forward to it.

      Best of luck with your new routine.
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