How do you deal with DOMS? About two years ago, when I was exercising

>>41402326
Eat. Rest. Wait.

>>41402354
DOMS is not an indication of training fatigue, and doesn't necessarily mean that continued training will result in muscle loss. Likewise, a lack of DOMS does not indicate a failure to overload/produce enough volume for gains. Bayesian Bodybuilding has quite a lot of collected information on this if you want to read more about it.

>>41402878
So what do you suggest one ought to do when one has DOMS?

>>41403039
You're gonna have to go with what your body is telling you. Do some very light stretching of sore areas, work your way up to rolling. If you still hurt at that point, you should never train through pain. If the stretching and/or rolling makes you feel mostly better, you should be fine to train. Most importantly, make sure you aren't injured. If there's even light pain in a joint, do not train through that.

>>41403067
Nah, I'm pretty certain it's just DOMS, not actual pain. I've hurt myself exercising before, this is not it. I'm just looking for means to reduce them so that I can jump back into action faster. I don't like having unscheduled rest days.

>>41403096
Get some glutamine supplementation rolling if you haven't already. There aren't any peer reviewed studies I can link you to that prove its effectiveness, but it's not super expensive and it seems as if it decreases recovery time. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'll take the placebo effect too ;)

>>41403135
Thanks!

>>41403158
No problem. Good luck to you

>>41402326
You work your legs too infrequently. Also avoiding training a muscle group when you have "DOMS" is pretty much the most counterproductive thing you could do.

>>41403195
>not working out the muscle that's ripped is counterproductive
how exactly?

Magnesium, ashwagandha, beta-alanine, BCAA. It helps me with DOMS.