Yes working out is about improving your health and body, but I don’t see what either has to do with strength. With that said you will also get stronger as that is an essential component of progressive resistance training.

JB

Sorry about that!

It’s probably just a conditioning thing. Most likely you’re just not used to it yet.

If you add in another leg training session each week you might find that you start recovering faster and aren’t as sore.

If you’re doing the Adonis Index program try adding in a second leg training day per week. Just copy the leg workout you are on for the week and do it again about 3-4 days later.

Your legs will probably start getting much stronger and get used to the volume…and you’ll most likely stop getting as sore.

Let me know how it goes.

JB

I’m hoping you could comment on my circumstance. I’m in my late twenties and never really have done much resistance training. I’ve had a hard time recovering from workouts, particularly squats. Even on non squat days I almost always feel like I can’t do another workout the next day because of soreness. But with squats I feel like I’m walking around like an old man for the next 4-5 days and this is on tiny weights (20lbs dumbells).

Do you think this is because I’ve never done any signifiant resistance training before and my body is just adjusting? How would you explain the soreness after squating only 40 lbs? I’m thinking this cannot be my “edge.” That would be pathetic.

Another thing is I don’t take creatine, maybe that would help with recovery.

I have stayed pretty consistent (with the exception of the odd month or so hiatus now and again) but I definitely struggled to see results after about 6 months. I lost about 10lbs and noticed great gains initially, but then they just tapered off. I basically spent about a year and a half regularly going to the gym and just “working out” with no real goal or clear purpose. Stagnated. Obviously your program has a clear, well-defined goal, and the workouts are specific and laid out in front of you for the next 9 months. Even still, no workout plan can explain to you how hard to work. It helps to know that no one ever achieved real muscle gains without continuously striving to increase their work volume and to consistently train “out of your comfort zone”. It sounds simple but so many people just don’t push hard enough. I’ve noticed more gains in 4 weeks on this program (and with a workout journal) then I did over the last year and a half of “floundering” in the gym. Awesome podcast!