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I'm coach Jonathan Lee here with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, I'm Leeds

That was more than a high this time. Hey, good job

I'd like to keep you guys on your toes. Yeah, and we're gonna answer more of your coaching questions today

Before we get into that a number of you submitted questions

Just asking for some clarification. We're talking about muscle soreness and how that would affect subsequent workouts

You know if you do the workout or if you'd adjust it or anything else like that

And there were some misunderstandings there Chad. Do you want to clarify that a bit?

Yeah, so the three of us actually had a pretty extended and somewhat heated discussion on this and and what it came down to is that some people can

tolerate higher levels of muscle soreness and still see important gains fitness gains

Nate's one of those people I'm not so when I when I start getting sort of the touch muscles

I know it's time to back off or things are gonna start to trend downward

So you just kind of have to figure out you know what is

Limitingly sore to you what can you actually work through and still see fitness improvements over the you know the longer course and you know

what makes it very clear this time to shut it down and

How to experience some more recovery and ideally?

Never have sore legs because I I kind of like through a four week block

I'll have three weeks of sore legs and then one week of like during my cover week at the very end

Like that's what this is this week. I'll feel better

So the things that I'm working on for this is what we're talking about is dawn's delayed onset muscle syndrome soreness soreness

Is I've noticed a correlation between carbohydrate intake? I never used to have this sore legs when I was a triathlete

But I would eat like tons and tons and tons of food and I'm doing less carbs now and I kind of feel like when I eat more carbs

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