What's up guys? Derek from more plates more dates.com.

Today we're going to be talking about do you need to be sore after working out to grow?

So, you know, obviously when you first start working out and you're a newbie, you go to the gym and you hit, you know, your first workout the next day you feel like you can't even move because you're so sore and it's your body getting a new type of stimulus slash resistance exerted upon it and you just

get crazy sore and this is normal and then you'll notice as you become more and more advanced you start

to become less and less sore and then the question arises is and what is what i'm doing effective

or inducing growth if i'm not if I'm no longer sore and

the short answer is no you do not need to be sore to grow so a lot of guys worry that oh I just

you know I just train my legs my legs aren't super sore does that mean I'm not training them

adequately enough and you know I don't think so and especially

if you're getting enough protein in you're getting your macronutrients in you're hitting your

calorie allotment you are resting sleeping enough and especially for guys you were enhanced too

you'll notice you have a way less uh propensity to soreness and

even when you do get sore it you recover a lot quicker it's not going to hinder your growth if you're not

feeling sore so don't think that you need to like train yourself into the ground or go to the gym

again later that day because you weren't sore or something like that like Like some guys get it a bit twisted and, you know, they'll train, say, chest and then the

next day they'll go, oh, crap, my chest isn't sore.

So then they'll go back to the gym and hit the same thing again because they think it wasn't

an adequate workout to induce hypertrophy.

In reality, as long as you're stimulating the muscle enough, you're hitting failure on,

I'd say at least your last set of each exercise, you know, have somewhat, you have some

knowledge about principles of working out in terms of contracting, muscular mind-to-muscle

connection, you're getting a pump, you're incorporating progressive overload into your

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