recovering from "leg day"

[starburst1979]

Leg day yesterday and I can feel every movement today and I know it'll be worse tomorrow. I've upped my protein and fluid, any other tips??

I wish I could still get doms, 25 years of lifting and nothing makes me hurt the next day any more
I really miss it

I don't think anything can really help, can it?! If it's really bad, take some ibuprofen. Have a bath before you go to bed.

But in a weird way I enjoy DOMS - know that I've worked hard/achieved something, even if I can barely walk!

have found that doing the same movement but with less weight helps sometimes
I dont think it's really properly understood BIWI the more you train the less you get it so I guess your muscles get used to it in someway

the 'cure' is just to keep grinding away in the gym, week in week out
year after year
when you get to your 60's you will be a woman of steel :o

I have abs of steel. Trouble is, they're buried under layers of blubber!

I have steel coloured hair
(Aka grey hair)

Hahahaha....kept up the fluids and it's not to bad today. I tried less weight more reps but I still hurt. I'll learn to live the pain. Shoulder and back tomorrow hahaha

Legs day is the one I dread the most! Especially as when I get to work I have three flights of stairs (no lift) to my office!

Dread?
never!
I love any lifting/strength training
doms is the icing on the cake :o

No I dread it. Because my trainer makes me do 40 seconds of squat jumps x 3 and then lunges up and down the gym, with weights, which make my legs hurt

oooh, I couldnt do any of those
too scared of going over on my ankle, one more bad sprain and I think it would be buggered :(

I do like lunges though, but static, all the reps on one leg then switch

We were doing 3 minutes of walking lunges last week in one of my classes, 3 sets, just body weight but my heavens I thought my legs would fall off.

Anyway active recovery to help the legs, go for a nice long walk. It sounds counterintuitive but like Suzanne's low weight reps it really works. No idea of the mechanics of it though.

Here is some explanation
news.byu.edu/news/why-your-muscles-get-less-sore-you-stick-your-gym-routine

It's called the "repeated bout effect'.....you get less sore from repeated workouts.

news.byu.edu/news/why-your-muscles-get-less-sore-you-stick-your-gym-routine

Old (ish) thread but I've just found this board! How exciting! I find that Spin really helps after leg day!