Yeah stretching and tearing the muscle fibre even more after working out definitely reduces the recovery time and DOMs
10 months ago
Anonymous
Alot of the pain is cause by inflammation, itself caused by lactci acid, fatigue toxins, and waste product build up. Stretching and doing light exercise can help bring new blood into the muscles, clearing away much of the previously mentioned, thereby reducing pain and inflammation afterwards.
You are a moron. Stop parading around like you know anything but your ass from a hole in the ground.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Oh, and it's best when done directly ater exercise, since some of these waste oroducts disappear by themselves (like CO2) but it's much less damaging to ctively push them out.
That last bit is just broscience on my part, but I feel like it makes sense and is backed up by my own and others personal experience.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I have noticed if I walk my dog after legs the doms are not as bad as when I walk before.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I just watched a Mike Israetel video related to this. He said exercising a muscle after a workout does reduce recovery time and DOMs but it also reduces muscle growth because the inflammation is part of what helps the muscle grow.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Can you link the video?
I want more muscle growth, and im willing to rest more between gym seshs, but want to know if long distance swimming or any kind of yoga would inhibit growth
6'2" 210lbs lean after three years lifting every single day. Biggest, leanest, by far most impressive in my gym, especially since frame is one of the most important factors. Sounds like you have a case of shit genetics if you can't generate enough ATP to push hard every day for 60-90 minutes.
This and tongue doms. I once got a cramp in my tongue muscles from adopting probably too rigid of tongue posture and it hurt so bad it made me get cold sweats. The day after it had doms and it was like reliving that pain every time I tried to swallow.
for me the worst DOMS are calves and hamstrings because when those muscles get tight my lower back starts hurting so it's a double whammy of being immobile and in pain.
agreed on chest DOMS, they just make me feel bigger in every day life because I can feel more of my chest with every movement. but abDOMS are not fun. they make me feel like something's wrong with my digestion, comparable to being bloated. I guess it depends on the type. I've had it in the upper abs and in the side abs where it felt okay, but I think when it's the lower half of the sixpack, that's the type that I hate.
quads by far, closely following by hamstrings
not that the DOMS are inherently worse than any other body part, but you're using your quads any time you get up from a chair or walk up/down stairs
trapezius for me, especially the upper trapezius. It really fricks up my neck and upper back if it becomes tight and sore, sometimes I get bad headaches if I worked my traps too much.
I get them every heavy day. Been lifting for 5 years. Maybe your not pushing hard enough. I also pr fairly often. If your not a powerlifter or bodybuilder you don't need to worrie about it.
Usually quads and hamstrings, but the worst pain used to be the calves. I used to do calf presses on a machine and I could push 16 45 lbs plates with only my calves. I'd get uncontrollable muscle spasms and doms a day or two later where my calves would suddenly contract as hard as possible like they were going to rip themselves apart. The muscle would not lock and I'd have to massage the muscle to try to stop it from injuring me.
you only get DOMS for training untrained muscles
Seeing as 90% here talk like they still get it tells me exactly what I thought: this board is 90+% noobs with about 1 month experience
I have lifted for 18 years but you know, sometimes life gets in the way. I'd rather think you are the beginner if you've never experienced longer downtime.
yes taking long breaks where muscles atrophy will cause DOMS when you get back to training for the first week.
dyels here talking like they're perpetually suffering from DOMS tells me that their experience in lifting is about 3 weeks where they then give up for 6 months. Rinse and repeat.
I thought I was going insane. I thought everyone is supposed to have DOMS and I was doing something wrong not getting them even if I was pushing hard at the gym. Turns out I’m just normal. Of course, I still occasionally get mild DOMs the next day when I blast away a specific muscle group to utter failure.
I have lifted for 18 years but you know, sometimes life gets in the way. I'd rather think you are the beginner if you've never experienced longer downtime.
Not the case at all. You get DOMS if you did too much for a muscle, simple as. I've been squatting for 4 years and when I do too much tonnage (volume x weight) I get DOMS in my posterior chain. Nothing to do with trained/untrained, it's about how much the muscle can handle.
Went to the pool with the worst doms in my calves and almost drowned because they kept cramping up like crazy. I could only lie down without pain or cramping but if I didn't move them for a long time I could barely get up again.
Overall worst? Definitely quads
When you really frick up an it's superDOMS? I would say hams.
For me, quads are annoying because the pain automatically makes me not want to use them, so I walk like a moron without engaging them and look like I newborn deer learning to walk, but when I intentionally think about walking using my quads and suffering for the first 5 minutes after which the muscles warm up, it's not as bad. But when you get bad hams DOMS.. it's otherworldly. You can't fricking bend down without feeling like your hamstrings' muscle strings have transformed into rusty steel wires that are rubbing on eachother.
Adductors >adjust seat position or walk like a normal human being or do anything that requires leg movement >immediately feel the retribution of the past leg day
I dunno what gives you the worst but I had mine with quads many times after couple 100s (1000) of bw squats. Couple times it lasted 10 days, couldn't even use stairs properly (walking up was a nightmare but walking down ... immediate death sentence, my legs just departing the moment they should take up the slack me falling right into the deep ... yeah, fun times).
Calves by far, i once had such horrible calf doms i had to walk on my tippy toes for 3 days. I felt like a mamlet. All that was left was to chant "grow, grow, grow..."
i did a leg workout on monday that was so rough its been a week and my doms is insatiable. i can barely walk still, have to use two hands to get down and sit up from the toilet. i dropped my keys and took 20 seconds to pick them up. is doms this bad a good thing or did i just destroy the muscle fibers alittle too far past necessary
You can reduce doms by doing cool down exercises and stretches after your workout
no you cant
You can.
You actually can not.
post body
Yeah stretching and tearing the muscle fibre even more after working out definitely reduces the recovery time and DOMs
Alot of the pain is cause by inflammation, itself caused by lactci acid, fatigue toxins, and waste product build up. Stretching and doing light exercise can help bring new blood into the muscles, clearing away much of the previously mentioned, thereby reducing pain and inflammation afterwards.
You are a moron. Stop parading around like you know anything but your ass from a hole in the ground.
Oh, and it's best when done directly ater exercise, since some of these waste oroducts disappear by themselves (like CO2) but it's much less damaging to ctively push them out.
That last bit is just broscience on my part, but I feel like it makes sense and is backed up by my own and others personal experience.
I have noticed if I walk my dog after legs the doms are not as bad as when I walk before.
I just watched a Mike Israetel video related to this. He said exercising a muscle after a workout does reduce recovery time and DOMs but it also reduces muscle growth because the inflammation is part of what helps the muscle grow.
Can you link the video?
I want more muscle growth, and im willing to rest more between gym seshs, but want to know if long distance swimming or any kind of yoga would inhibit growth
Thank you
You can reduce doms by working out for more than two weeks.
You're literally not training hard enough. I get doms almost every time and I've been training for years.
Sounds to me like you've got an incurable case of shit genetics bud.
6'2" 210lbs lean after three years lifting every single day. Biggest, leanest, by far most impressive in my gym, especially since frame is one of the most important factors. Sounds like you have a case of shit genetics if you can't generate enough ATP to push hard every day for 60-90 minutes.
Fake and gay nogym bullshit
I literally never get DOMS but my shoulders always feel like they're on fire right after a workout
>lower back (diddlies then high reps dumbbell diddlies to failure)
if it's really bad I can not tell if it's just DOMS or if I also have a belly ache
perineal DOMS
This and tongue doms. I once got a cramp in my tongue muscles from adopting probably too rigid of tongue posture and it hurt so bad it made me get cold sweats. The day after it had doms and it was like reliving that pain every time I tried to swallow.
Hamstrings. Nothing cums close.
Was going to post this. Hamstring DOMS is so miserable and lasts a while
This. So much this.
Best DOMS are chest and abs.
for me the worst DOMS are calves and hamstrings because when those muscles get tight my lower back starts hurting so it's a double whammy of being immobile and in pain.
agreed on chest DOMS, they just make me feel bigger in every day life because I can feel more of my chest with every movement. but abDOMS are not fun. they make me feel like something's wrong with my digestion, comparable to being bloated. I guess it depends on the type. I've had it in the upper abs and in the side abs where it felt okay, but I think when it's the lower half of the sixpack, that's the type that I hate.
calves and it's not even close
calves
Top 3 for me
>1. quads
>2. lower back
>3. shoulders
quads by far, closely following by hamstrings
not that the DOMS are inherently worse than any other body part, but you're using your quads any time you get up from a chair or walk up/down stairs
trapezius for me, especially the upper trapezius. It really fricks up my neck and upper back if it becomes tight and sore, sometimes I get bad headaches if I worked my traps too much.
Ughh gaping buttholes uggh that gape ughh gapers
neck doms give me panic attacks
+hammy doms are annoying
Calves no contest.
Best:
>Traps
Worst:
>Inner thigh
>pic related is Quads
It seems like you already know the answer
Calves by far. Really bad calf doms and you are walking around on your tip toes like a low functioning autist that thinks he is a dinosaur.
Planning your day around avoiding any stairs or vaguely high curbs..
Hamstrings. Sitting down on them sensitive hammies really activates the almonds
Calves. I train them, feel fine. Wake up next day, kinda sore. The day after, I end up having to crawl like a moron
Lats/traps have worst doms. It’s not a “good” feeling like other muscles.
I love lat doms. I hate doms that make going from standing to sitting painful.
My dick will give you the worst DOMS in your life, right in your sneed.
Do you understand?
that one right there. pic related. and pip is crazy when I inject test into a nerve in the quad, fuccck
That's why you pin your ass, dumbass
I do, I take turns, the ass is my least favorite because I can never get a decent grip of the syringe it just feels awkward.
Absolutely calves. Two says after training.
Run barefoot on a rough surface like gravel for half an hour and your calves will be sore for 4-5 days.
I usually don't get Lat doms, but the first time I did, I genuinely thought I tore something
I get them every heavy day. Been lifting for 5 years. Maybe your not pushing hard enough. I also pr fairly often. If your not a powerlifter or bodybuilder you don't need to worrie about it.
abs bro. abs doms are so crazy lmao. been doing hip thrusts and ab wheels.
Hams, intercostal muscles, calves.
Usually quads and hamstrings, but the worst pain used to be the calves. I used to do calf presses on a machine and I could push 16 45 lbs plates with only my calves. I'd get uncontrollable muscle spasms and doms a day or two later where my calves would suddenly contract as hard as possible like they were going to rip themselves apart. The muscle would not lock and I'd have to massage the muscle to try to stop it from injuring me.
Lats.
you only get DOMS for training untrained muscles
Seeing as 90% here talk like they still get it tells me exactly what I thought: this board is 90+% noobs with about 1 month experience
you can get it from taking a break for a few months
yes taking long breaks where muscles atrophy will cause DOMS when you get back to training for the first week.
dyels here talking like they're perpetually suffering from DOMS tells me that their experience in lifting is about 3 weeks where they then give up for 6 months. Rinse and repeat.
Nothing here reads like people get them all the time.
I thought I was going insane. I thought everyone is supposed to have DOMS and I was doing something wrong not getting them even if I was pushing hard at the gym. Turns out I’m just normal. Of course, I still occasionally get mild DOMs the next day when I blast away a specific muscle group to utter failure.
I have lifted for 18 years but you know, sometimes life gets in the way. I'd rather think you are the beginner if you've never experienced longer downtime.
Not the case at all. You get DOMS if you did too much for a muscle, simple as. I've been squatting for 4 years and when I do too much tonnage (volume x weight) I get DOMS in my posterior chain. Nothing to do with trained/untrained, it's about how much the muscle can handle.
Went to the pool with the worst doms in my calves and almost drowned because they kept cramping up like crazy. I could only lie down without pain or cramping but if I didn't move them for a long time I could barely get up again.
Overall worst? Definitely quads
When you really frick up an it's superDOMS? I would say hams.
For me, quads are annoying because the pain automatically makes me not want to use them, so I walk like a moron without engaging them and look like I newborn deer learning to walk, but when I intentionally think about walking using my quads and suffering for the first 5 minutes after which the muscles warm up, it's not as bad. But when you get bad hams DOMS.. it's otherworldly. You can't fricking bend down without feeling like your hamstrings' muscle strings have transformed into rusty steel wires that are rubbing on eachother.
God I miss working legs
Quads, don't know how it can be any other answer
Bad quad doms make it difficult to even walk normally, most other doms you can push through
>do some squats after skipping leg day for months
>can't walk for a week
>do some squats after skipping leg day for months
>can't stand back up after sitting down on the toilet to take a shit
that's why i always shit in disabled toilets if i'm in public
Adductors
>adjust seat position or walk like a normal human being or do anything that requires leg movement
>immediately feel the retribution of the past leg day
>squat
>just normal 3x5
>sore for almost a week
I hate this so much.
it's because you only squat once per week
I dunno what gives you the worst but I had mine with quads many times after couple 100s (1000) of bw squats. Couple times it lasted 10 days, couldn't even use stairs properly (walking up was a nightmare but walking down ... immediate death sentence, my legs just departing the moment they should take up the slack me falling right into the deep ... yeah, fun times).
>go all out at the gym
>pain comes in immediately after the gym
>never get doms
NGMI am I?
DOMS is not required to grow
Fank thuck for that.
Glutes, calves, and shins
>Glutes
Front delt doms can pretty bad because you just feel them all day even sitting at your desk
Same with low back doms
legs ofc
basically the push muscles for me
1) chest (brutal, can't even shower normally)
2) triceps
3) calves
ass muscles by far. there is no position in which ass muscle doms can be reduced. they impact everything.
>new to gym
>this leg press looks fun
>can't sit for a week
everything from the waist to the knee.
Calves by far, i once had such horrible calf doms i had to walk on my tippy toes for 3 days. I felt like a mamlet. All that was left was to chant "grow, grow, grow..."
> DOMs bad
Why? I don't understand
>tfw no masseuse to help me deal with my intense pectoral doms
I could do that for you :3
i did a leg workout on monday that was so rough its been a week and my doms is insatiable. i can barely walk still, have to use two hands to get down and sit up from the toilet. i dropped my keys and took 20 seconds to pick them up. is doms this bad a good thing or did i just destroy the muscle fibers alittle too far past necessary
Penis doms