There is always room for improvement! 💪🏼

[Wishfulthinker580]

Yeah. Always have to be careful about overtraining.

Learned a similar lesson back in college. Went a little crazy doing donkey calf raises with a workout buddy (challenging/competing against each other has its pluses and minuses ). Don’t know how many hundred calf raises we did with each other on our backs, but hooooooo boy, the next few days sucked.

What I discovered with waaayyyy overtraining my calves; when I sat down for any appreciable amount of time, my calves would tighten up so much, I couldn’t straighten my legs.

For the next 2 days, after every single class ended, it literally took me a couple minutes to verrrryyyy slowly stand up, as I gradually stretched my calves to allow me to fully straighten my legs, to avoid tearing something (then it would happen again when I sat down in the next class).

Actually had a classmate ask, “Are you OK?”. “Yep. Yep. Just fine. Went a little stupid on the workouts”

Dang it lol. That was my exact experience the last few days but it was my quads. Excruciating.

 

[bluemax_1]

Dang it lol. That was my exact experience the last few days but it was my quads. Excruciating.

Bad enough in the calves. With the even larger quad muscles… Oof.

One thing I’ve found, that helps with DOMS; is one of those percussive massagers. Tried one of the cheapo Chinese ones off Amazon, then a few years back, I decided to jump on a good BF sale on a Theragun Pro (4th gen).

It works even better (more power. Can apply significantly more force/pressure without stalling the motor. Greater percussive depth).

And one interesting thing that’s difficult to fully appreciate until I used the Theragun vs the cheaper version; That proprietary triangular shaped handle of the Theragun is actually a well thought out ergonomic design. Coupled with the ability to adjust the angle of the percussive head, it allows the user (whether your using it on yourself solo, or have someone using it on you/using it on someone else) to hold it so you can apply more pressure/force in a straight line.

All the cheap versions have the same standard ‘T’ shape. When you hold the handle, it applies torque to your wrist when you apply pressure, because your wrist isn’t inline with the head.

Like the trope says, I don’t always need/use it, but when I do, it was well worth the $$$ to me.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Bad enough in the calves. With the even larger quad muscles… Oof.

One thing I’ve found, that helps with DOMS; is one of those percussive massagers. Tried one of the cheapo Chinese ones off Amazon, then a few years back, I decided to jump on a good BF sale on a Theragun Pro (4th gen).

It works even better (more power. Can apply significantly more force/pressure without stalling the motor. Greater percussive depth).

And one interesting thing that’s difficult to fully appreciate until I used the Theragun vs the cheaper version; That proprietary triangular shaped handle of the Theragun is actually a well thought out ergonomic design. Coupled with the ability to adjust the angle of the percussive head, it allows the user (whether your using it on yourself solo, or have someone using it on you/using it on someone else) to hold it so you can apply more pressure/force in a straight line.

All the cheap versions have the same standard ‘T’ shape. When you hold the handle, it applies torque to your wrist when you apply pressure, because your wrist isn’t inline with the head.

Like the trope says, I don’t always need/use it, but when I do, it was well worth the $$$ to me.

Nice. Been thinking about getting one. Will look into it

 

[David Mary]

I've never really done Bulgarian split squats before, but I started last night, adding them into my current workout. I did 8 total reps, because

I discovered

have to be careful about overtraining

, whereas in the past I could do insane volume and feel fine the next day. I never was able to squat much (330 lb 1RM at my best), but I could do dozens of reps in a session with up to 75% max, three times a week in my thirties. In my 20s I was doing hundreds and sometimes over a thousand bodyweight (Hindu) squats every week. The last time I did a medium intensity high volume workout I was sore for a week. So quality over quantity is my modulus of elasticity to keep me feeling young.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Time to lyyyyyyft

 

[David Mary]

Don’t forget to put it down when you’re done tinfoil hat timmy

 

[bluemax_1]

Time to lyyyyyyft

Just heed the warnings about overtraining. Some of us are naturally uber achievers

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Don’t forget to put it down when you’re done tinfoil hat timmy

Done and done Sir