Originally Posted by striker93
When you experience muscle soreness, it means that you have done damage to your muscle fibers. During recovery, nutrition and rest, the body repairs the muscle and increases the size of the fibers. The fibers supercompensate and, as a result, they're trying to prepare themselves for the next workout stressor. You do not need to do severe muscle damage to hypertrophy the muscle fibers. Perform more work than last workout and you are good to go. You are doing fine. You probably have a greater workload capacity than your partner does. Don't sweat it, bro.