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Originally Posted by DBall
I only really tried to go balls to the wall yesterday. Thank you for the tip though... are you saying I should go back and forth between reps and balls out? My thing is that I never seem to be sore the day after...
The only thing that hurts today is my elbow... the rest of my body (legs included) don't really even feel like I did anything yesterday. Is that normal? Does that mean I'm doing something wrong? I would think I'd be sore after how much I did yesterday.
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Give it another day, some guys get DOMS ( delayed onset muscle soreness ) I dont get it that often but it does happen. Stretching and foam rolling will help reduce this, but you have to be very proactive.
For the elbow I would get in the habit of putting some icy hot on your elbow ( neoprone sleeve will eliminate the use of icy hot) and ibuprofen and ice. Heat the day after if it still hurts. You may need this more in the beginning then later down the road. The key is to be proactive.
Not trying to sound like a dick here but, looking at your leg training and training for the day, you may have went balls out in your book but not in most. It was a decent total bodyworkout but there could have been more. I would maybe start training legs on its own day, with more volume and weight. You would be surprised the punishment your legs can take.
As far as training all out, you will be able to get away with it for a period of time then you will start to overtrain ( flu like symptoms decreases in musclemass and weight used during training ) if you are going to train balls out, you are going to need to eat more. Most of the guys I know try to pyramid there workouts. They start with high reps and lower weight, and each week they decrease the reps slowly and increase the weight. Main thing after a week were you go all out make sure to get lots of rest and calories. If you fail to recover properly the following week in the gym will be hampered.