Hi Guys
What would you consider as a light workout week?. Slowing the reps down?, 12 rep exercises just lifting enough not to failure and reducing your volume?.
just asking as my light weeks are still creating me doms due to always contracting and using TOT technique but not as much strain as a heavy week . i still feel very good compared to a heavy week where im full buggered.
your thoughts and opinions please !
Having read and pondered over the above, I think that the most critical word of the lot is "doms". I think it's this word that has and is the cause of confusion amongst many a bodybuilder.
Please consider the following if you will:
1. Doms does not necessarily mean you've had a productive workout.
2. Doms does not mean muscle growth and adaptation has not taken place.
If we reflect upon the two points I've raised above, the picture would become much clearer. You see, doms could be the result of placing a muscle fiber under stress whilst in a stretched position. Doms could also be the result of doing something that in a particular manner that the muscle, or muscle group have not been accustomed to. One can squat and dead lift 7 days a week, yet get severe doms after mowing the grass... (uneven/downhill/uphill) grassy area.
Doms and muscle growth and adaptation. Simply because you've got Doms, does not mean your muscles have not began to adapt and grow within 1 hour post your workout. That's how protein synthesis works, and it has to work that way (and not wait until Doms dissipate), or one will never see his muscle grow.
So the association of Doms with either having had a good workout, or having not recovered and therefore protein synthesis would have to wait until that stage..., does not hold any truth.
What would I consider a light week is a totally different question, a reply I'll leave for another post.
Thank you.