Any of you guys still get sore the next day from a workout? I've always associated getting sore with getting bigger and growing muscle. I noticed when I control the weight and go slow I can still be pretty sore the next day even though I'm not keep lifting heavy weight anymore. When I left heavy the only thing sore is my joints.
If you're mixing it up, you betcha. If you constantly do the same routine, you won't get sore. If you start slowing, controlling the weight using iso holds, ect... and doing it correctly, you isolate better and don't use as many of the surrounding muscles.
It's the only way I train anymore and works. If you do it for a while and go back to heavy, there's a good chance you will be sore but have the sore joints as well.
I'm gettin' to old and brittle for heavy stuff any more but heavy is not the only way to go.
It's also possible that when you go heavy, you are going to heavy and don't work the muscle properly.
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