I've had first hand experience how its not the day after one lifts hard, but the day after the day after when the muscles will feel like they've been trashed.
I think I read where most folks experience delayed onset muscle soreness by the 48hr mark. It's typically been the case with me. It also seems to last longest with my legs and lower back.:violin:
You guys all lie. You definitely get more buff lifting heavy. I had two trainers at my gym comment on it today. Joy.
Well, I won't say you were flabby before but now you are building more lean muscle so that is starting to show thru.
Well, I won't say you were flabby before but
Watch it, buster. Don't use that word with me. I just don't want to look like a body builder or like I have muscle hypertrophy. Ew, funkyfish. I'd like to sprint faster, but I'm only willing to go so far. And lifting heavy all the time would just be drudgery for me. I'm already looking foward to total cessation in the fall.
maybe those trainers have an agenda
either to get you to hire them to train you or your friends or
they were flirting with you.
you weren't too muscular at nats
you and I are no where near the point of diminishing returns of being too muscular
You guys all lie. You definitely get more buff lifting heavy. I had two trainers at my gym comment on it today. Joy.
Throw the scale away Fort.
Lifting heavier and trying to develop more explosive power (combined with a good swim program and diet) will create more definition and you will most likely add some weight as muscle is denser than fat.
Not sure why there is so much skepticism here...do you think Natalie Coughlin is "big"? How about lacey Nymeyer? Gary Hall Jr.? look at any elite athlete swimming the same events you do and tell me they are "big"? And trust me they are almost all lifting this way....
I never weigh myself. Just use the mirror.
I'm not really "skeptical." I'm going to plug away for a couple months and see how it goes. Those fegirls are awfully young for comparison though and perhaps have different body types? ... I thought Natalie was all about the pilates ... I also decidedly remember your lovely wife saying she was a "big girl" at the beer garden. Not true, of course, but it shows the fegirl mindset.
Not lifting on vacation though. Except some curls. :drink:
This is ridiculous. You know what's making you go from one side of the pool to the other over and over again every day? Your muscles. No matter how you train, or what events you want to do, your muscles are actually making the performances happen. Without muscle, there is no movement at all. With more muscle, there is more strength, more power, and more speed. Men swim faster than women because of muscle. Cheaters take steroids because of muscle. And you're afraid of it?
Guys, I told you before, the code word is TONED. Not muscle, not bulk, TONED.
