When should I be sore?

Why is it that the time it take my body to become sore from working out fluctuates? I workout pretty much the same time of day, between 8 and 10 pm, and I'm either sore the next morning as soon as I wake up or roughly 20 hours later. For instance, if the night before I worked on chest and tri's, if I'm not sore as soon as I wake up, I never feel sore until about 3pm. If the latter is the case, regular as clockwork, my chest and tri's would start stiffening and becoming sore at around 3pm.

Is the time is takes my body to become sore from working out a guage for the effectiveness of my previous workout?

Thx,

-ScottyDog

I dont know about why our soreness flucuates but I can tell you for sure that just b/c your sore or not sore is NO way to tell if your work out was effectiveness or not... Hell I bench 325 for reps of 8 on my last set and I squat 500 and I rarely get sore ne more and I know for **** sure that they are good workouts. So no Dont use soreness to get your workout bc you might not get sore..

Yeah, I've had more than a few instances where I worked out hard, but never became sore afterwards. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but from what I remember, Soreness comes from a buildup of lactic acid, which is the result of micro tears in muscle fibers caused by working out.

I may be way off base, but that's the theory I was taught.

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Originally Posted by ScottyDog

Yeah, I've had more than a few instances where I worked out hard, but never became sore afterwards. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but from what I remember, Soreness comes from a buildup of lactic acid, which is the result of micro tears in muscle fibers caused by working out.

I may be way off base, but that's the theory I was taught.

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Nobody really knows what causes delayed onset soreness, microtrauma is the most often quoted theory but it is not entirely satisfactory.

Lactic acid only causes a transient pain, not really a soreness, and only last for several seconds.

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Great info guys, thx!

J big dog put it well...also as far as soreness goes sometiems I wont be as sore the day after a workout but really feel it 2 days after. The human body is real tough to understand!