What is going on, everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all happy

podcast. I'm your coach and host, Josh, here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house.

Today we're going to be covering some tips, some of our favorite tips, six tips at that to really

improve recovery, to really maximize your results and really minimize soreness. And what I mean by here by maximizing your results is when you're recovered properly, you know, you're rested, you're restored, you're ready to go, right? When you're working with some wear and tear, it can be a little bit harder. So definitely pay attention to these tips because sometimes a great way to propel forward with strength, you know, with muscular development, all these different things is to actually take some time out of the gym to take care of yourself. So I'll let you take this one away, Kyle. Yeah. And like, soreness is inevitable. It will happen. I truthfully believe once you get used to specific movements and stay consistent, like it does get better. i know a lot of times people once they start

lifting and start doing specific things such as squats lunges whatever it is like you know or just like

a new movement you will feel sore now i do recommend going back to episode 90 and that's a full episode

where we talk about does it actually mean you're progressing if you're sore a common myth is a lot of times people

like hey like I'm not sore like it doesn't mean it's not a good workout or like oh my god I'm so

sore I can barely walk that means I'm progressing right and that's definitely not the case but

make sure to check that out but long story short soreness does not equal um progress or muscle growth

and one of the biggest issues and the reason I wanted to bring this up

is today is because a lot of times they can actually reduce the activation of the desired muscle.

So sometimes, you know, people will say, oh, suck it up, suck it up, keep going. But if you're doing

legs and then you're super sore and then you go to do legs again, like it is okay to push through

here and there, but you won't get as great results as if when you're completely fresh.

Now, let's jump right into it.

My biggest takeaway and biggest tip for today is just simply easing into your program.

If you're someone who hasn't done a barbell squat for a while

and you just start loading on the plates,

you are going to be so, so sore. So easing into it, getting proper form, filming yourself,

good full range of motion, just getting back into it, even if it's for a couple weeks, will

result in less soreness. And once again, like, you just, you don't want to be walking around

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