if your muscles dont get sore after a workout then does that mean its not working..?

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Answer 1

No...it means your muscles are getting more efficient. They may still get sore when you try new exercises that work a muscle group you haven;t used much, but as you become more fit, expect to get sore less and less. You may still get tired, but not sore like when you first started.

Answer 2

Muscle soreness is not, I repeat, is NOT an indicator of a good workout. Sore muscles the day after does not mean you had an effective workout or productive workout or a results-causing workout. Therefore, NOT being sore the day after doesn't mean your workout was bad, or ineffective, or unproductive, or useless. As far as effectiveness, muscle soreness means nothing.

Muscle soreness usually occurs when you make your muscles do something that they just aren't used to doing. For example, when you first started working out, that was very likely when you experienced the most soreness. Forget the next day... you were probably sore for the entire next week! But then as your body gradually gets more accustomed to what you're doing, your body gradually experiences less and less muscle soreness until it reaches the point where you are barely sore or even not sore at all anymore the day(s) after a workout.

Well, like I mentioned before, muscle soreness in the day or days following a workout is caused by your muscles having to do something they aren't used to doing. So, if your chest workout for the last 2 months has consisted of the flat bench press, incline bench press, and dumbbell flyes, and this time you changed it to flat bench dumbbell press, decline bench press, and cable flyes, there is a very good chance you'll be sore the next day. Was it because this workout or these exercises were better or more effective in some way? Not at all. It was only because you changed something (in this case exercises), and in doing so you caused your body to do something it wasn't used to doing. This is what would cause muscle soreness.

Answer 3

Not at all. If you are working near your limit of reps / weight and not OVER it, you should not get much delayed onset muscle soreness. Soreness is a sign that you are overdoing it.

Here's a tip: try to do 12 of something. If it's too easy, try to do 16, and 24, and 32, and so on, until you can just barely do the reps -- WITHOUT GRUNTING and bending your body out of shape. Stay with that weight for the next two or three visits to the gym. Then up the weight and drop back to 12 reps again. Lather, rinse, repeat, as they say.

Overdoing it on weights is a great way to cause permanent muscle or joint damage.

Answer 4

don't judge your training by the amount of soreness. training should be judged by increases in strength or endurance over a period of time.

delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS is caused by trauma to skeletal muscle and a loss of calcium homeostasis in the muscle cell. some body parts gets more sore than others, that doesn't mean that you haven't stimulated them sufficiently.

* my shoulders never get sore even when doing military presses with 315 lbs for 10 reps but they are one of my best body parts. they do hurt when training them but I never get DOMS in the shoulders.

Answer 5

you're nevertheless getting a piece out, yet your muscle reminiscence has maximum possibly gotten extra effectual. as quickly as the inital ask your self of the lifting is over your muscle tissues will get better without all the discomfort. the biggest to reaching the superb outcomes is to blend up your work out habitual. additionally, if the education has grow to be ordinary upload some weight!

Answer 6

it is working....your muscles are just used to the work.....you might want 2 consider an increase in weight

Answer 7

You aren't working them out hard enough, or the soreness will come the next morning.

Answer 8

it means you didn't challenge your muscles

Answer 9

Maybe you didn't work out hard enough.