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Nov 2017
3:16pm, 22 Nov 2017
12,328 posts
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Sharkie
I really do find the padded sleeve (and right position) helps.
V-rap - you've had far better, more fun and more appropriate and place specific things to do. Hurrah!
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Nov 2017
3:22pm, 22 Nov 2017
37,157 posts
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Velociraptor
My first session back on the weights at home may come as a slight shock!
But yes, we've been really lucky with the weather this time and not had to resort to bad weather training contingency plans. My shoulders, arms and legs feel as if they've been well worked.
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Nov 2017
3:27pm, 22 Nov 2017
12,329 posts
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Sharkie
Interestingly, V-rap, after my first weights session of the winter - with what seemed like really pretty light weights - I had ludicrously bad DOMS 36 hours later. Since then hardly at all although I've upped the weights lots and my gym sessions are long. At first I worried I wasn't working hard enough but I guess the twice weekly - but regular - sessions are key...
(and I'm lucky!)
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Nov 2017
3:35pm, 22 Nov 2017
37,158 posts
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Velociraptor
I quickly stopped getting DOMS from the upper body weights, but even after three weeks of bodyweight/very trivial dumbbell-weighted squats I was still having bother with DOMS. It won't matter much for the next few weeks, because it's likely that weights and walking will be all I'll have time to do.
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Nov 2017
3:43pm, 22 Nov 2017
12,330 posts
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Sharkie
Is that strange V-rap? Any idea why? It sounds unusual. Even when you don't do much by your standards you still do plenty...
Are some peeps more likely to experience DOMS than others? In certain muscles? I'm just interested as DOMS is a very real and specific but from my amateur reading I gather still not fully understood.
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Nov 2017
3:50pm, 22 Nov 2017
37,160 posts
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Velociraptor
It seems strange to me, Sharkie, but I don't know how it fits in with anything else that I do or can't do. Maybe it's just co-incidence, or without realising it I'm managing to get down further with successive sessions of squats and that's setting off DOMS in different muscle groups.
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Nov 2017
3:54pm, 22 Nov 2017
23,132 posts
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HellsBells
I get bad DOMS in my quads - we did a leg intense session last week with lots of split squats and it was Monday before I could run pain free. I get a lot less DOMS with upper body, but I've no idea why
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Nov 2017
4:06pm, 22 Nov 2017
12,331 posts
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Sharkie
I do find it fascinating.
I know you cycle as well as run, Hells - and suspect that, although your upper body sounds strong, like most women (most people really) you use your lower body muscles much more. And cyclists usually have more developed quads ... so, yeah, how come the quads DOMS?
Mind you split squats are tough and reach the parts other leg exercises don't!
And V-rap if you're right then isn't it a good thing that you are increasing your functioning ROM re the deeper squats?
Still a bit of a swizz noticing it so much at parkrun though!
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Nov 2017
5:33pm, 22 Nov 2017
29,969 posts
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alpenrose
I had my first session last Wednesday - the freebie - so he was doing a few specific exercises to see what I was like. The very first thing was squats with a vibr then pushing it up (if you know what I mean). By the 3rd set my quads were killing me and I couldn't complete the 3rd set. It took until Sunday for my legs to be back to normal. I foresee DOMS all over for me for the next few weeks. 
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Nov 2017
5:34pm, 22 Nov 2017
29,970 posts
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alpenrose
Mind you, I do love it when I feel that I have muscles.
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