Muscle pain ?My muscles don't hurt after lifting heavy weights - why?

Question

My friends are in pain while I am not. Why would that be?

Answer 1

As someone already said soreness comes from tiny little tears in the muscle tissue. Burn comes from the build up of lactic acid in the muscle.

If your goal is to build muscle then you want to acheive the burn, and be sore the next day or two. That is accomplished by maximizing reps and weight.

If you want to maintain, then if you don't feel sore, it's okay. Just stick with a work out where you don't increase weight or reps, but ensure you aren't losing anything either.

Your body becomes accustomed to the workout and you are no longer tearing the muscle fibers, your muscles are able to store enough glycogen, and your heart rate and breathing become better at regulating the oxygen flow so as to not have the lactic acid burn. If you go past this point, you get sore and feel burn.

Answer 2

Being sore is a good thing - it's an indicator that your muscles are growing bigger because some of the fibers that run down your tricep muscles have ripped and your body is compensating by making more. It's not generally advised to work out one major muscle group more than twice a week. Today, I'd focus on your back, abs, and legs. Make sure you're taking in lots of protein (lean red meat, fish, eggs), or using whey protein supplements to hasten the healing process.

Answer 3

Pain is caused by micro tears in the muscle as it is being overloaded by weight lifting. To cause that pain and to feel it as you say, you must progressively overload your muscles. As an example, pick an exercise, say curls and do them on an easy bar. Load the bar with he desired weight that you can handle for 8-10 reps. The last couple of reps should be done under protest by your muscles. Do the reps required and then strip of 15% of the weight and continue repping for another 10-12 reps. That's one set. Take a 75 second rest and do it again till you do 3-4 sets. I guarantee you pain. Have you ever heard of 1and 1/4's. NO? You are missing out on loads of fun and PAIN. Take the same bar and curl it ONE QUARTER of the way up and put it back down, full extension, then curl it up like you normally would, stop on top, contract the muscle HARD, and lower it SLOWLY. Do 3 sets of those as prescribed and then send me an email telling me about the pain, if you can type.

Answer 4

My husband lifts weights & it sounds like to me that you can do more than what your friends are doing. That's why you're not sore or in any kind of pain. To lift to your potential you should have at least a little muscle soreness or you're not giving yourself the workout you need.

Answer 5

Pain in the muscles is not always a good thing. So don't think that your friends are ganing something more just because they feel sore.

Soreness is caused by the muscle tears caused by eccentric movement or negative. FOr ex. during bicep curls. bring dwom the barbell slowly in a controlled manner instead of dropping it.

Answer 6

maybe you need to try heavier weights than what your mates use?
are you on any medication?? such as anti-inflammatories or pain killers? this could mask the pain
but some people just don't get much pain from training, it depends on your ratio of white muscle fibres and red muscle fibres, you might have more red which are usually stronger and fatigue less quickly

Answer 7

maybe they are not used to it or don't lift frequently.

I get sore when I haven't worked out in a long time. When I am working out regularly, I'm never sore. I think that you are actually sore, but you just don't feel it coz you are used to it.

Kind of like getting in a hot tub. When you first get in, it feels hot. Then you get used to it and don't really feel anything.

Answer 8

some people are used to it if you lift alot and they dont then maybe your body is already used to it.

Answer 9

i guess you should increase the weight or increase in the number of repetitions

Answer 10

you haven't lifted enough yet