Hello, Dr. Clyde, this is Emmanuel. Lastly, I have a question about the Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) that you were speaking about during that seminar. You said that when DOMS occurs, that is when your satellite cells are rebuilding the damaged muscle cells and when the white cell lymphocytes are digesting the broken down muscle. My question concerning DOMS is that after I workout on a program for a little over a week (probably 4-5 workouts), I don't get sore anymore, what does that indicate? I have heard from some top notch trainers that soreness is an indicator of your body adapting to a workout and it does not have to occur in order to gain strength (i.e. your body can still get stronger on the same program, despite not being sore after several workouts), what do you have to say to this? Thanks for all of your time and information, it has been such a great help to me.
Hello Emmanuel, I agree. Pain goes down as muscle adapts and therefore becomes less damaged with training. Damage has to be fairly significant to feel DOMS. Lesser damage can be repaired faster if it does not require satellite cell activation, but damage can be worse (requiring satellite cells) without being bad enough to induce significant pain and this level of damage will follow the same time course as the recovery associated with DOMS. The training intensity will determine how often recovery falls into that category.
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