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Still sore 5 days after leg day (lemmy.one)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically, it's been five days and I'm unable to even sit in a chair without a struggle. I didn't go too hard, mainly squats and leg press. I didn't think it would take this long to recover considering I still run 4 times a week. Is it normal to be this sore and what can I do to help it?

I really really want to get back in there and work on my squat form but I can't even get close to parallel right now due to the soreness

Edit* side note I went from an extremely sedentary lifestyle to a very active one about 6 months ago, starting with running but now my legs are paying the price of no strength training. So it may be that I'm just so new to the workouts

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Same happened to me when I started adding squats into the mix last year. For me it’s a mixture of age and new workout. I noticed that after maybe age 38 DOMS in my legs hang around for longer than ever before. I committed to a single day a week for legs which included squats and deadlift. I picked Fridays since I do easy workouts on the weekends so I would have time to ease back. Took about 5 weeks for me to move past that phase. At week 3 I was dreading the Fridays workouts knowing what would come. After week 5, I haven’t had a problem since and now really look forward to my Friday exercises.