Hello everyone welcome back to fit body happy joints. My name is Shannon today. We're talking about soreness.

Does soreness mean you had a more effective workout or if you're not sore does that mean you had an ineffective workout?

We've had a lot of questions about this lately. or does that mean you had an ineffective workout?

We've had a lot of questions about this lately,

so I thought I'd do a quick podcast to educate

because I think this stuff is really interesting

and important for really all of us to know.

So here's the bottom line. Muscle growth or

hypertrophy can happen with or without soreness. The ideal is to have light to

know muscle soreness after a workout because volume and consistency are the most

important quality for results. If your workouts are constantly wrecking you and leaving you so

sore that you can't walk the next day you're not going to be able to train well in the next session.

So you'll either have to take more days off in between sessions or you'll train anyway and increase

your risk of injury.

Instead of judging your workouts effectiveness on how sore you got

make sure you're controlling these factors. So number one you're getting close to

failure in each set. Number two you're eating enough protein and number three, you're allowing 48 hours or

longer in between training the same muscle so that it can have time to recover.

If you're doing those things, you may not get super sore, but you will start to see results.

Okay, so that's the bottom line. Let's get into why. So, domes or a delayed onset muscle soreness is pain, swelling, tenderness, stiffness, and we've probably all experienced this.

It starts hours to days after exercising, usually peaks within like one to three days.

Besides the pain and swelling that's obvious muscles can also have decreased

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